Shwanda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shwanda has been given to 133 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1976, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Shwanda, 1988
1 in 462,000
Shwanda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shwanda?
Shwanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 462,000
- 8 of 3,694,212 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 320,080 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shwanda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 320,080 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shwanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shwandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shwanda was born before 1977 — so the typical Shwanda is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 67.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 133
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 67.7% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Shwanda 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 1976 (20)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shwanda
Shwanda is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 65.3% against Shwanda's 0.03%.
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 Shwanda is used
Across 1910–2025, Shwanda was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Shwanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shwanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shwanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shwanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.