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Shawnda

Girls' name

Variant of Shonda

Shawnda has been given to 2,538 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1975, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Shawnda, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shawnda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Shonda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shawnda means

Shawnda is a variant of Shonda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shawnda is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɔːn.də/ for Shawnda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shonda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,538 girls were recorded with the name Shawnda between 1957 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 154 in 1975; its best national rank was #871 in 1975.

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 Shawnda?

Shawnda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shawnda 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shawnda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shawndas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shawnda was born before 1976 — so the typical Shawnda is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,538
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (1,231).

Is Shawnda 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (154)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#871
1975

Spellings of Shawnda

Shawnda is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 15.5% against Shawnda's 0.86%.

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 Shawnda is used

Across 1910–2025, Shawnda was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 121,698 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 33,333
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Shawnda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shawnda 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
—
Best rank ever
#871
1975
Peak year
1975
154 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
2,538
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shawnda

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

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Names with a curve like Shawnda

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

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Sibling names for Shawnda

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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