Shwanda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shwanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 133 babies named Shwanda between 1969 and 1988, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shwanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shwanda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shwanda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shwanda in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shwanda 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 133 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.