Shandra
Shandra was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 3,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,840 Americans named Shandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 40 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shandra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,157, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
127 babies in 1976, the peak
Shandra peaked in 1976, when 127 girls were given it, #998 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #17,157 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,073 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,418 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,164 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,598 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,206 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,105 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,745 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,861 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,471 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 28 | #3,988 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,283 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,756 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,288 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,206 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,076 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,609 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,142 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,889 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,730 | 41.6 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,492 | 50.0 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,401 | 53.6 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,480 | 48.8 |
| 1984 | 103 | #1,251 | 61.2 |
| 1983 | 101 | #1,251 | 60.5 |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,333 | 55.5 |
| 1981 | 117 | #1,153 | 70.1 |
| 1980 | 123 | #1,116 | 74.1 |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,220 | 66.7 |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,229 | 66.6 |
| 1977 | 126 | #1,051 | 82.2 |
| 1976 | 127 | #998 | 86.7 |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,154 | 69.3 |
| 1974 | 115 | #1,040 | 78.4 |
| 1973 | 111 | #1,053 | 76.1 |
| 1972 | 116 | #1,014 | 76.3 |
| 1971 | 109 | #1,102 | 65.5 |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,151 | 57.8 |
| 1969 | 101 | #1,103 | 59.9 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,673 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,594 | 30.9 |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,567 | 30.7 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,845 | 22.1 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,832 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,844 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,652 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,463 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,290 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,502 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,016 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,905 | 8.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,723 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,484 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,419 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,096 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,159 | 3.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,468 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shandra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shandra, and how old are they?
2,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,018 Americans ever recorded as Shandra. The median Shandra alive today is 47 years old; half are between 40 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 2,788 people named Shandra (2,776 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 197 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 151 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shandra born?
The states with the most babies named Shandra are Texas, California and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 243 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 194 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 127 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 126 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 59 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Shandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shandra is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1945 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shandra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,028 babies since 1880, Shandra is the most given (60% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shandra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shandra and names like it
- Compare Shandra and ShaundraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShandra peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shandra since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Shandra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shandra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.