Shawanda
Recorded 1960–2007 · United States
Shawanda was most popular in 1977, when 186 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,406 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,853 people named Shawanda.
Shawanda over time
How old is the name Shawanda?
Shawanda first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1960, which makes it about 65 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 43 of the 66 years since. It was last recorded in 2007.
How many people are named Shawanda?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,853 American births named Shawanda between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,735 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shawanda in 2025?
Shawanda was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Shawanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shawanda is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,853 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shawanda?
Roughly 2,735 Americans named Shawanda are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 41 and 51. That is a narrow band: Shawanda arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shawanda is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org