How Many People Are Named Shanda?

7,531

people named Shanda are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 45,383 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,997 babies named Shanda in Social Security records from 1946 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,917

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,630

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Peak Year

1974

387 births

Trend

2014

Last year given

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Shanda in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shanda alive today is about 47 years old, and 87% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 41 and 53 in 2025.

Under 30 326
4.3%
30 to 59 6,543
86.9%
60 and over 662
8.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shanda first appears in the records in 1946 and was given most often in 1974, to 387 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.

Babies given the name each year, 1946 to 2014

🏆 Rank History

Shanda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #467, in 1974.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#467 (1974)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#531 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Shanda alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Shanda were born in Texas than in any other state: about 671 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shanda was given 2.5 times as often in Georgia, 2.4 times in Kansas and 2.4 times in Mississippi.

Texas 671
California 488
Ohio 338
Georgia 324
North Carolina 258
Michigan 211
Tennessee 207
Illinois 197
Louisiana 186
Alabama 184
Indiana 184
Kentucky 182
Pennsylvania 169
New York 160
Florida 158
Oklahoma 147
Missouri 147
Mississippi 142
Kansas 122
Virginia 97
Arkansas 91
Utah 89
South Carolina 81
Colorado 77
New Jersey 71
Iowa 62
Minnesota 55
Wisconsin 52
Washington 38
West Virginia 35
Idaho 17
Maryland 16
Arizona 12
New Mexico 10
Nebraska 9
Oregon 6
North Dakota 5
Connecticut 5
South Dakota 5
Montana 5

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