Shawnda
Shawnda was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 2,538 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Shawnda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 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 Shawnda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shawnda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,022, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
154 babies in 1975, the peak
Shawnda peaked in 1975, when 154 girls were given it, #871 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #20,022 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,467 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,986 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,144 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,764 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,243 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,036 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,970 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,773 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 24 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,483 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,773 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,727 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,653 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,040 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,698 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,603 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,671 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,447 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,467 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 90 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 117 | #1,107 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 120 | #1,035 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 154 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 142 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 138 | #907 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 130 | #945 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 127 | #993 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 131 | #969 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 112 | #1,035 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,488 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,535 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,978 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,127 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,852 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shawnda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shawnda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shawnda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shawnda, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,538 Americans ever recorded as Shawnda. The median Shawnda alive today is 50 years old; half are between 43 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 2,140 people named Shawnda (2,135 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,432 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 82 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 726 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 72 |
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 Shawnda born?
The states with the most babies named Shawnda are Ohio, Texas and California, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 193 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 177 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 165 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 81 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Kentucky | 51 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Shawnda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shawnda is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1957 it was given 1.5 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 Shawnda 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,647 babies since 1880, Shawnda is the second most given (45% 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 Shawnda
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 Shawnda and names like it
- Compare Shawnda and ShawandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShawnda peaked in 1975.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shawnda since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Shawnda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shawnda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.