Shandy
Shandy was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 843 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shandy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shandy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,651, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1979, the peak
Shandy peaked in 1979, when 51 babies were given it (42 girls, #2,298 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,651 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,741 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,722 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,562 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,677 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,562 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,599 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,660 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,044 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,192 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10 | #9,156 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,430 | 6 | #9,084 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,022 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,983 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,011 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,556 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,350 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,895 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,491 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,990 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,279 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,150 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,078 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,848 | 5 | #7,406 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,410 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,048 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,689 | 9 | #4,530 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,296 | 7 | #5,400 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,791 | 15 | #3,076 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,298 | 9 | #4,341 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,921 | 6 | #5,656 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,732 | 9 | #4,101 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,530 | 5 | #6,346 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,946 | 6 | #5,346 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,079 | 7 | #4,561 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,313 | 14 | #2,696 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,047 | 6 | #4,897 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,490 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,925 | 6 | #4,642 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,675 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,870 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,444 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shandy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 843 Americans recorded as Shandy, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shandy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shandy, and how old are they?
An estimated 806 Americans named Shandy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 906 people named Shandy (760 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,786 babies since 1880, Shandy is the fifth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 90 babies recorded by SSA was a Shandy (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shandy
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 Shandy and names like it
- Compare Shandy and ShandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShandy peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shandy since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shandy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shandy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.