Shavonda
Feminine
There may be a Siobhan inside Shavonda and there may not. The front matches the way English ears receive that Irish name, the back matches nothing in Irish at all, and no family document has ever been produced that settles which way round the name was built.
How old is the name Shavonda?
Shavonda first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Shavonda alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 1,100 people named Shavonda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shavonda most popular?
Shavonda peaked in 1978, reaching #1290 nationally. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shavonda
The ending is the more interesting half. Names in -onda and -ondra appear in the American record within a single decade, spread quickly, and stop; they correspond to nothing in any of the languages the front halves come from, and they were not borrowed so much as agreed on. Endings like that behave like fashions in clothing rather than like linguistic borrowings: they arrive without a source, everyone recognizes them immediately as belonging to a particular moment, and they date a certificate more precisely than most other evidence on it. A century from now the ending will be the part a researcher uses to place the name.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source can be established. If the first two syllables carry the Irish name, the meaning behind them is the Hebrew one about God showing favor, arriving by a long detour through Norman French. If they do not, the name means nothing at all, and the record gives no way to choose.
Pronouncing Shavonda
shuh-VON-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first and last are reduced to nothing, which is why the record holds Shevonda and Shavonda with no audible difference.
Nicknames for Shavonda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 197894 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1290reached in 1978
- Change vs 2001
- −28.6%5 in 2002, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shavondas among us
people named Shavonda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shavonda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Vonda is a complete, established name sitting in the second half.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English and it is easy to say from the page.
- The rhythm is the settled American one and the name sounds established.
- Several spellings of the same sound circulate, so spelling it out is permanent.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
- It is closely dated to one American generation.
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- How many Shavondas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Shavonda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shavonda in 2025?
- Shavonda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Shavonda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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