Shandon
Shandon reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 1,741, and has been recorded 932 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 890 Shandons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shandon boys named Shandon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 932
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 1,741st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1965
- Girls / boys
- 184 / 748
How old the living Shandons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 932 babies given the name since 1965, about 890 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Shandons
- Shandon Baptiste (born 1998)Grenadian association football player
- Shandon Anderson (born 1973)American basketball forward and guard
People named Shandon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shandon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shandon is most concentrated in Utah (58.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Shandon peaked:
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Shandon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.