Schwanda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Schwanda has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Schwanda, 1984
1 in 498,000
Schwanda over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Schwanda?
Schwanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 498,000
- 7 of 3,488,451 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 241,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 345,431 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Schwanda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 345,431 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Schwanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Schwandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Schwanda was born before 1974 — so the typical Schwanda is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 85.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 99
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 85.9% of all recorded uses (85).
Is Schwanda rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (14)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.8% average annual change
Spellings of Schwanda
Schwanda is not the most common spelling — Shanda is, with 47.0% against Schwanda's 0.58%.
Where Schwanda is used
Across 1910–2025, Schwanda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 181,490 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Schwanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Schwanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Schwanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Schwanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.