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Lewanna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lewanna has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1971, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Lewanna, 1979

1 in 475,000

Lewanna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lewanna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lewanna means

Lewanna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lewanna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 87 girls were recorded with the name Lewanna between 1922 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1971; its best national rank was #4,753 in 1922.

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 Lewanna?

Lewanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 475,000
7 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
329,417 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lewanna 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 1979 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 329,417 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lewanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lewannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lewanna was born before 1971 — so the typical Lewanna is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
59.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
76
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 59.8% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Lewanna 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 1971 (11)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,753
1922

Spellings of Lewanna

Lewanna is not the most common spelling — Deanna is, with 41.3% against Lewanna's 0.03%.

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.

Lewanna around the world

Where Lewanna 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.

  • South Australia
    1998–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lewanna 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
#4,753
1922
Peak year
1971
11 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lewanna

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

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Sibling names for Lewanna

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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