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Shawanda

Girl

Shawanda

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Meaning

This name is in the birth records, but its history has not yet been added to the library. We add meanings only when they can be given with a source.

Its wave through time

A fashion of the 1970s

In the United States

05101518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1977per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 2,853 babies given this name since 1960
  • At its height in 1977, about 1 in 8,200 girls
  • Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.