Shunda — girls' name
537 babies named Shunda in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 1969. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Shunda was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Shunda in 1969 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shunda
The Social Security Administration has registered 537 babies named Shunda between 1962 and 1988, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shunda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 51 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shunda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 311 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shunda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 37 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Shunda in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shunda 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 537 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.
Shunda at a glance
Last recorded 1988Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shunda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1962
- Peak year (1969)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1988.
537 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1969 with 51 births in a single year.
Shunda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 311 births that decade — 58% of Shunda's all-time total
Shunda decade highlights
- Peak decade 311 births
- Runner-up 133 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Shunda's strongest decade
311 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Shunda by state
Where Shunda concentrates geographically — total births since 1962
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 37 | 6.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 35 | 6.5% |
| #3 | Alabama | | 13 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 12 | 2.2% |
| #5 | Arkansas | | 5 | 0.9% |
37 of 537 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 6.9% of nationwide
- Texas 6.5% of nationwide
- Alabama 2.4% of nationwide
- Georgia 2.2% of nationwide
- Arkansas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 6.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1962–1988 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.