Shanda
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 387 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,997since 1946
Shanda over time
Rank among girls' names. Shanda has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
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| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #2,570 | 53 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 |
| 1995 | #2,309 | 57 |
| 1994 | #1,574 | 97 |
| 1993 | #1,451 | 110 |
| 1992 | #1,575 | 98 |
| 1991 | #1,395 | 115 |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 123 |
| 1989 | #1,157 | 142 |
| 1988 | #1,020 | 159 |
| 1987 | #829 | 210 |
| 1986 | #778 | 218 |
| 1985 | #785 | 213 |
| 1984 | #758 | 213 |
| 1983 | #758 | 213 |
| 1982 | #728 | 236 |
| 1981 | #652 | 271 |
| 1980 | #605 | 303 |
| 1979 | #560 | 328 |
| 1978 | #506 | 373 |
| 1977 | #503 | 370 |
| 1976 | #502 | 356 |
| 1975 | #496 | 361 |
| 1974 | #465 | 387 |
| 1973 | #477 | 376 |
| 1972 | #547 | 305 |
| 1971 | #538 | 340 |
| 1970 | #621 | 274 |
| 1969 | #643 | 238 |
| 1968 | #883 | 136 |
| 1967 | #826 | 147 |
| 1966 | #944 | 116 |
| 1965 | #915 | 121 |
| 1964 | #1,103 | 98 |
| 1963 | #1,126 | 94 |
| 1962 | #1,383 | 64 |
| 1961 | #1,387 | 65 |
| 1960 | #1,617 | 48 |
| 1959 | #1,820 | 37 |
| 1958 | #1,542 | 48 |
| 1957 | #1,211 | 76 |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
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| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shanda! It came in at #3,217, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shanda is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#279 · 1 in 1,482
- Mississippi#292 · 1 in 1,576
- Tennessee#312 · 1 in 2,022
- South Carolina#320 · 1 in 1,920
- Alabama#340 · 1 in 2,012
Best ever in a state: #189 in North Dakota, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #279 | 11 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Mississippi | #292 | 11 | 1 in 1,576 |
| Tennessee | #312 | 14 | 1 in 2,022 |
| South Carolina | #320 | 10 | 1 in 1,920 |
| Alabama | #340 | 12 | 1 in 2,012 |
| North Carolina | #345 | 15 | 1 in 2,446 |
| Colorado | #348 | 8 | 1 in 1,967 |
| Indiana | #367 | 13 | 1 in 2,849 |
| Kansas | #369 | 5 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Georgia | #371 | 14 | 1 in 2,570 |
| Kentucky | #385 | 8 | 1 in 2,969 |
| Wisconsin | #407 | 7 | 1 in 3,929 |
| Missouri | #453 | 8 | 1 in 3,910 |
| Texas | #457 | 33 | 1 in 2,920 |
| Louisiana | #492 | 8 | 1 in 3,316 |
| Virginia | #520 | 6 | 1 in 4,934 |
| Florida | #522 | 11 | 1 in 4,044 |
| Michigan | #526 | 12 | 1 in 5,158 |
| New Jersey | #532 | 9 | 1 in 4,526 |
| Pennsylvania | #626 | 10 | 1 in 7,211 |
| Illinois | #662 | 12 | 1 in 6,216 |
| Ohio | #744 | 8 | 1 in 9,306 |
| California | #758 | 20 | 1 in 6,854 |
| New York | #1,535 | 5 | 1 in 22,168 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shanda
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
- Biggest jump: 240 spots in 1969 (#883 → #643)
- Biggest drop: 191 spots in 1988 (#829 → #1,020)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1974 at #465 (387 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1965–1987
- Highest: 1 in 3,792 girls born in 1974 were named Shanda (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 297,726 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
- 43.4% of all girls named Shanda (3,470) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 26 | #3,217 (1946) | #3,682 |
| 1950s | 266 | #1,211 (1957) | #2,770 |
| 1960s | 1,127 | #643 (1969) | #1,083 |
| 1970s | 3,470 | #465 (1974) | #522 |
| 1980s | 2,178 | #605 (1980) | #807 |
| 1990s | 767 | #1,318 (1990) | #2,214 |
| 2000s | 150 | #3,664 (2000) | #9,024 |
| 2010s | 13 | #13,347 (2011) | #13,953 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shanda in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 4,988 of them was named Shanda, which outranked 94.3% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).