How rare is the name Shanda?

6,888 people in the United States have the first name Shanda, about 1 in 43,849. It ranks #3,162 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SHANDA

#3,162

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,888
About
1 in 43,849
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,888 people named Shanda, 64.6% reported their origin as White, 25.6% as Black and 4.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shanda peaked in 1974, when 387 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462014
Peak year
1974
Births that year
387
In 2014
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,997 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shanda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #953. The largest share of babies named Shanda, 56.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#8,64526
1950s#3,391266
1960s#1,6961,127
1970s#9533,470
1980s#1,3702,178
1990s#3,189767
2000s#12,392150
2010s#37,94513
Baby boom 1946–648.3%
Generation X 1965–8056.7%
Millennials 1981–9631.5%
Generation Z 1997–123.5%
2013 and later0.1%

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 Shanda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shanda has been most common in Georgia (2.2×), Kansas (2.2×), and Mississippi (2.1×), and least common in New York (0.39×).

5,623 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.

Exactly as common as Shanda

1 other first name also has 6,888 people.

#3,162 Monserrat · 6,888

Either side of Shanda

#3,161 Twila · 6,890#3,162 Monserrat · 6,888#3,164 Nguyen · 6,887#3,165 Evelia · 6,884

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,295 Shonda · 6,481#4,039 Shanta · 4,799#7,200 Shawnda · 2,140#9,188 Shandi · 1,532#9,711 Shaunda · 1,416#13,361 Shandy · 906#21,290 Shunda · 478#47,857 Shwanda · 135

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