Shandy
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shandy has been given to 843 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1981, with 44 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Shandy, 2010
1 in 616,000
Shandy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shandy over time
In 2010, Shandy went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shandy?
Shandy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shandy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shandy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shandys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shandy was born before 1983 — so the typical Shandy is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 728
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (301).
Is Shandy 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (44)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shandy
Shandy is not the most common spelling — Brandy is, with 23.6% against Shandy's 0.16%.
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 Shandy is used
Across 1910–2025, Shandy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 739,105 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Shandy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shandy around the world
Where Shandy 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.
- France2009–2012#7,042in 2012
- Canada2005–2007#2,743in 2007
- South Australia1981–1981#616in 1981
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shandy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shandy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shandy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.