Shawanda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shawanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,853 babies named Shawanda between 1960 and 2007, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shawanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 186 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shawanda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,279 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shawanda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Shawanda in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shawanda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,853 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.