Shawanda

Where Shawanda comes from

The dictionaries list Shawanda as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #5,696 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #806
    186 babies named Shawanda — more than any year before or since.
  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 known Shawanda turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.