girls:
8k births since 1946
#1825 (68th percentile)
overall:
8k births since 1946
#3023 (61st percentile)
The name Shanda is the #3,023 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,997 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 60.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,825 (68.1% percentile) for all time with 7,997 births since 1946.
Shanda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Shanda is available in 65 out of the 69 years between 1946 and 2014. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shanda reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 43.8% percentile (ranked #420) with 247 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 247 births per million (ranked 43.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Shanda is pronounced as SHAN-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHUHN-duh, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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