How Many People Are Named Shawnda?

2,398

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

About 1 in 142,529 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,538 babies named Shawnda in Social Security records from 1957 to 2008, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,993

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,349

See the top 100

Peak Year

1975

154 births

Trend

2008

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SHAWN-də
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of SHONDA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Shawnda in English. Counting Shawnda and these spellings together, about 9,383 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shawnda alive today is about 47 years old, and 91% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 42 and 53 in 2025.

Under 30 83
3.5%
30 to 59 2,193
91.5%
60 and over 122
5.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shawnda first appears in the records in 1957 and was given most often in 1975, to 154 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2008.

Babies given the name each year, 1957 to 2008

🏆 Rank History

Shawnda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #871, in 1975.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#871 (1975)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,042 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Shawnda were born in Ohio than in any other state: about 183 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shawnda was given 6.8 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.7 times in Ohio and 3.1 times in Kentucky.

Ohio 183
Texas 167
California 154
Oklahoma 76
Kentucky 48
Indiana 47
Illinois 46
Florida 40
Michigan 35
Missouri 31
Georgia 20
New York 14
Tennessee 10
New Jersey 9
Arkansas 9
Pennsylvania 7
Virginia 5
South Carolina 5
Nebraska 5
North Carolina 5
Iowa 5
Washington 5

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