Shaunda
Shaunda was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 1,623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Shaunda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 43 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaunda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaunda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,966, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1978, the peak
Shaunda peaked in 1978, when 104 girls were given it, #1,209 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,966 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,683 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,599 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,204 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,885 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,484 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,991 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,524 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,197 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,352 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 20 | #4,970 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,349 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,761 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,432 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,706 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,551 | 22.7 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,279 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,617 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,808 | 35.3 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,607 | 43.1 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,613 | 43.8 |
| 1980 | 92 | #1,370 | 55.4 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,258 | 63.5 |
| 1978 | 104 | #1,209 | 67.9 |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,604 | 43.7 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,600 | 43.0 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,706 | 38.4 |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,550 | 42.9 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,524 | 42.5 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,665 | 35.5 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,359 | 47.5 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,419 | 42.3 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,494 | 37.3 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,283 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,159 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,827 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,455 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,088 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,306 | 8.3 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,968 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,276 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,059 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,875 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaunda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaunda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaunda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaunda, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,623 Americans ever recorded as Shaunda. The median Shaunda alive today is 48 years old; half are between 43 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,416 people named Shaunda (1,409 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,558 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 527 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 33 |
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 Shaunda born?
The states with the most babies named Shaunda are Texas, Ohio and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 71 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Shaunda 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 14,529 babies since 1880, Shaunda is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 90 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaunda (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 Shaunda
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 Shaunda and names like it
- Compare Shaunda and ShandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShaunda peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaunda since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shaunda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shaunda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.