girls:
184 births since 1965
#5532 (3rd percentile)
boys:
748 births since 1966
#3839 (16th percentile)
overall:
932 births since 1965
#6807 (12th percentile)
The name Shandon is the #6,807 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 932 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 12.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,839 (16.2% percentile) for all time with 748 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,532 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 184 births since 1965.
Shandon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Shandon is available in 54 out of the 58 years between 1965 and 2022 (51 years for boys and 25 years for girls). 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.
The name Shandon has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Shandon were boys.
For boys, Shandon reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #742) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Shandon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #815) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shandon".
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