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Shanda

As a girl's name, Shanda traces back to Sanskrit, where it is understood to mean "Sanskrit, moon". It was at its most popular in the 1970s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 8 of the last twelve decades.

EtymologyVariant of Shandra/Chandra
SanskritSanskrit – "moon"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
26
1950s
266
1960s
1,127
1970s
3,470
1980s
2,178
1990s
767
2000s
150
2010s
13
Peaked in the 1970s · 7,997 total U.S. births since 1900