Shalonda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalonda has been given to 4,632 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1980, with 261 recorded.
Babies named Shalonda, 2009
1 in 637,000
Shalonda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shalonda?
Shalonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 637,000
- 6 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 441,341 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalonda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalondas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalonda was born before 1980 — so the typical Shalonda is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,632
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (1,933).
Is Shalonda 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 1980 (261)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shalonda
Shalonda is not the most common spelling — Shanda is, with 17.5% against Shalonda's 10.1%.
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 Shalonda is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalonda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 37,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 12,500
- 2Mississippi1 in 14,286
- 3Florida1 in 16,667
- 4Georgia1 in 16,667
- 5South Carolina1 in 20,000
- 6Illinois1 in 25,000
- 7Alabama1 in 33,333
- 8Arkansas1 in 33,333
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. Shalonda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalonda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shalonda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shalonda
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shalonda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shalonda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.