Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Shawndel**

#15,758 most common boys' name of all time · #40,967 across all names · 53% male / 47% female · used 1968–2006 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#15,758
Rank overall
#40,967 of 105,966
First appeared
1968
Years on the list
16 of 146
All-time
97
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1973
Best rank
#4,293 1976
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
19802000

Shawndel first appears in 1968. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2006 — 6 6 #10,976
2002 — 5 5 #11,063
2001 — 5 5 #10,960
1998 — 5 5 #10,043
1996 — 5 5 #9,421
1993 5 — 5 —
1991 5 — 5 —
1990 — 5 5 #8,612
1989 5 — 5 —
1977 7 — 7 —
1976 — 8 8 #4,293
1975 — 6 6 #5,219
1974 — 6 6 #5,015
1973 14 — 14 —
1971 5 — 5 —
1968 5 — 5 —