Shalanda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalanda has been given to 1,744 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1977, with 115 recorded.
Babies named Shalanda, 2005
1 in 481,000
Shalanda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shalanda?
Shalanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 481,000
- 8 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 333,081 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalanda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 333,081 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalanda was born before 1979 — so the typical Shalanda is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,744
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (828).
Is Shalanda 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 1977 (115)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shalanda
Shalanda is not the most common spelling — Shanda is, with 22.0% against Shalanda's 4.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shalanda is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalanda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 146,644 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Florida1 in 50,000
- 4Georgia1 in 50,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 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. Shalanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalanda around the world
Where Shalanda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1983–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shalanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shalanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.