Lashawnda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lashawnda has been given to 2,227 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 118 recorded.
Babies named Lashawnda, 2011
1 in 732,000
Lashawnda over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lashawnda?
Lashawnda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lashawnda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lashawnda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lashawndas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lashawnda was born before 1982 — so the typical Lashawnda is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,227
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (948).
Is Lashawnda rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (118)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Lashawnda
Lashawnda is not the most common spelling — Lashonda is, with 24.8% against Lashawnda's 6.0%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Lashawnda is used
Across 1910–2025, Lashawnda was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 92,400 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lashawnda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lashawnda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lashawnda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lashawnda
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lashawnda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lashawnda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.