Shundra — girls' name
375 babies named Shundra in U.S. Social Security records since 1965, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Shundra was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Shundra in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shundra
The Social Security Administration has registered 375 babies named Shundra between 1965 and 1993, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shundra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shundra performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 179 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shundra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Shundra in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shundra 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 375 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.
Shundra at a glance
Last recorded 1993Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shundra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–1965
- Peak year (1979)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1993.
375 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 28 births in a single year.
Shundra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 179 births that decade — 48% of Shundra's all-time total
Shundra decade highlights
- Peak decade 179 births
- Runner-up 135 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Shundra's strongest decade
179 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Shundra by state
Where Shundra concentrates geographically — total births since 1965
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 17 | 4.5% |
| #2 | Texas | | 16 | 4.3% |
| #3 | Mississippi | | 12 | 3.2% |
| #4 | Alabama | | 9 | 2.4% |
| #5 | Tennessee | | 5 | 1.3% |
17 of 375 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 4.5% of nationwide
- Texas 4.3% of nationwide
- Mississippi 3.2% of nationwide
- Alabama 2.4% of nationwide
- Tennessee 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 4.5% 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, 1965–1993 (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.