How rare is the name Shonda?

6,481 people in the United States have the first name Shonda, about 1 in 46,603. It ranks #3,295 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHONDA

#3,295

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,481
About
1 in 46,603
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,481 people named Shonda, 49.1% reported their origin as Black, 44.5% as White and 3.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shonda peaked in 1970, when 510 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19542008
Peak year
1970
Births that year
510
In 2008
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,444 babies have been given the name since 1954. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shonda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #864. The largest share of babies named Shonda, 72.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#5,529111
1960s#1,5081,390
1970s#8644,074
1980s#1,7561,440
1990s#5,254369
2000s#21,73060
Baby boom 1946–645.7%
Generation X 1965–8072.4%
Millennials 1981–9620.4%
Generation Z 1997–121.5%

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 Shonda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shonda has been most common in Louisiana (3.7×), Mississippi (3.6×), and Georgia (2.8×), and least common in New York (0.38×).

5,864 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 Shonda

#3,292 Miya · 6,486#3,294 Dannie · 6,482#3,296 Tu · 6,480#3,297 Leonidas · 6,476

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,162 Shanda · 6,888#10,455 Shonta · 1,274#21,290 Shunda · 478

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