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Lashay

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Lashay has been given to 2,847 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1992, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Lashay, 2024

1 in 557,000

Lashay over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lashay: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Lashay means

Lashay is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lashay is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Lashay is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,837 girls were recorded with the name Lashay between 1966 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,241 in 1992.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Lashay between 1976 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1976; its best national rank was #6,100 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lashay?

Lashay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lashay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lashay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lashays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lashay was born before 1993 — so the typical Lashay is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,837
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1990s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (1,032).

Is Lashay 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 1992 (140)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
1992

Spellings of Lashay

Lashay is not the most common spelling — Sasha is, with 27.6% against Lashay's 2.0%.

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 Lashay is used

Across 1910–2025, Lashay was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 116,100 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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. Lashay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lashay around the world

Where Lashay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1987–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lashay by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,241
1992
Peak year
1992
140 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,837
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,100
1976
Peak year
1976
5 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lashay

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LashaeLashonLassieLasheaLasonyaLashunLashaunLasyaLashawnLashanLashundaLashanaLashaLashellLashawnaLashandaLasandraLashawndaLashelleShayLasonjaLasoniaLashaiLashona

Names with a curve like Lashay

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lashay, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lashay

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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