Leshawn
#11,457 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leshawn has been given to 1,118 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #11,457 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.
Babies named Leshawn, 2025
1 in 553,000
Leshawn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Leshawn over time
In 2025, Leshawn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Leshawn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,457
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leshawn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leshawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Leshawns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leshawn was born before 1993 — so the typical Leshawn is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 23.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 806
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (187).
Is Leshawn 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,242
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,820
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 22.2%
- Peak was 1976 (27)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Leshawn
Leshawn is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 80.5% against Leshawn's 0.21%.
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 Leshawn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Leshawn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 829,459 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Leshawn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Leshawn is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Leshawn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Leshawn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Leshawn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Leshawn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leshawn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.