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Shanda

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shanda has been given to 7,997 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1974, with 387 recorded.

Babies named Shanda, 2014

1 in 618,000

Shanda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shanda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shanda means

Shanda is a given name.

The naming story behind Shanda

Wikidata records Shanda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q63485463, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,997 girls were recorded with the name Shanda between 1946 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 387 in 1974; its best national rank was #467 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shanda?

Shanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shanda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanda was born before 1977 — so the typical Shanda is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,971
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (3,470).

Is Shanda 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 1974 (387)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#467
1974

Spellings of Shanda

Shanda is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 31.4% against Shanda's 0.29%.

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 Shanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Shanda was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 26,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 12,500
  2. 2Kansas1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 14,286
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 14,286
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 14,286
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  8. 8Utah1 in 14,286

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. Shanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shanda around the world

Where Shanda 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.

  • Canada
    1992–1995
    #1,830
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1983–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shanda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Shanda. Linked forms have their own page here.

ChandaShonda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Shanda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#467
1974
Peak year
1974
387 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
7,997
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shanda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SharondaShawndaShalondaShaundaShawandaSharlaShainaShalandaShastaShaniaShaynaShakiraShanaeShayleeShailaShaniceShaniyaShavondaShayneShantelShanelSharaShaunaShanna

Names with a curve like Shanda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shanda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CristyMistiAmiLashawnMindiTawanaMalissaLatriciaTishaKarieDanelleMellissa

Sibling names for Shanda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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