Shenandoah — #15643 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shenandoah

The Social Security Administration has registered 347 babies named Shenandoah between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shenandoah currently holds the #15643 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Shenandoah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 112 additional births since 1965.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shenandoah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shenandoah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shenandoah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shenandoah 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 347 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.