How rare is the name Shalonda?

3,727 people in the United States have the first name Shalonda, about 1 in 81,039. It ranks #4,834 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHALONDA

#4,834

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,727
About
1 in 81,039
This common or more
84.6%
Who bears it

Of the 3,727 people named Shalonda, 93.2% reported their origin as Black, 3.1% as two or more races and 2% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shalonda peaked in 1980, when 261 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632009
Peak year
1980
Births that year
261
In 2009
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,632 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shalonda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,338. The largest share of babies named Shalonda, 50.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#4,785170
1970s#1,3381,933
1980s#1,5681,749
1990s#3,497673
2000s#15,600107
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–8050.7%
Millennials 1981–9644.6%
Generation Z 1997–124.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shalonda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shalonda has been most common in Louisiana (3.8×), Mississippi (3.2×), and Florida (2.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.23×).

3,412 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Shalonda

#4,832 Elayna · 3,728#4,832 Herschel · 3,728#4,835 Allyn · 3,726#4,836 Ki · 3,725

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shalonda, most common first.

#10,246 Shalanda · 1,310#31,775 Shelonda · 268#35,789 Sholanda · 224#35,884 Shalinda · 223#38,294 Shalandra · 201#45,502 Shalondra · 149#47,181 Shelanda · 139#49,173 Shalunda · 127

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