Shwanda
Shwanda was last recorded in 1988, when 8 babies were given it; 133 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shwanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shwanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,118, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1976, the peak
Shwanda peaked in 1976, when 20 girls were given it, #3,514 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #9,118 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,857 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,931 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,708 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,369 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,862 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,460 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,514 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,043 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,002 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 9 | #5,869 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,525 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,354 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,333 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shwanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shwanda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shwanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shwanda, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Shwanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 46 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 135 people named Shwanda (132 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,647 babies since 1880, Shwanda is the third most given (2.4% 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 Shwanda
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 Shwanda and names like it
- Compare Shwanda and ShawandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShwanda peaked in 1976.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shwanda since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Shwanda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shwanda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.