Shawanda

Where Shawanda comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Shawanda.

  • Vowel-ended
Shawanda through the years
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #5,696 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #806
    186 babies named Shawanda, the most in any year.
  3. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,475.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Shawanda in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.