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Lawan

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Beauty

Lawan has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1970, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.

Babies named Lawan, 1982

1 in 702,000

Lawan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lawan over time

In 2002, Lawan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19542002

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lawan: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lawan means

Lawan means “beauty”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lawan is used in Thai.

Another recorded pronunciation is /laː˧.ˈwan˧/ for Lawan.

Origin, language, and formation

Lawan is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 girls were recorded with the name Lawan between 1954 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1970; its best national rank was #4,967 in 1968.

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Lawan between 1972 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1972; its best national rank was #3,503 in 1972.

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 Lawan?

Lawan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 702,000
5 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only
1 in 339,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
486,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lawan 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 1982 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 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lawans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lawan was born before 1968 — so the typical Lawan is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
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Choose a decade

1960s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Lawan 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 1970 (10)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,967
1968

Spellings of Lawan

Lawan is not the most common spelling — Dawn is, with 54.0% against Lawan's 0.02%.

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 Lawan is used

Across 1910–2025, Lawan was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 98,004 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 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. Lawan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lawan around the world

Where Lawan 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
    2008–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lawan 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
#4,967
1968
Peak year
1970
10 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,503
1972
Peak year
1972
9 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lawan

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

LawsynLawrieLawsonLawrynTawanLawnaHewanLawrenLawonaJwanAntwanSwanDawanTaiwanLawondaRawanLawraShawanRidwanLawonLawonnaDewanKawanTywan

Sibling names for Lawan

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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