Name meaning & stats
Shawanda
Shawanda. 2,853 US babies since 1940, peak 1977.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1977
2,853 US babies were named Shawanda between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Shawanda (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 52% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1977)