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Lowanna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lowanna has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1955, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Lowanna, 1974

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lowanna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lowanna means

Lowanna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lowanna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Lowanna between 1941 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1955; its best national rank was #4,225 in 1941.

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 Lowanna?

Lowanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1974
1 in 608,000
5 of 3,039,803 births
Among girls only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1974
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,407 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lowanna 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 1974 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 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lowanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lowannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lowanna was born before 1964 — so the typical Lowanna is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Lowanna 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 1955 (7)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,225
1941

Spellings of Lowanna

Lowanna is not the most common spelling — Joanna is, with 38.7% against Lowanna's 0.01%.

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.

Lowanna around the world

Where Lowanna 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
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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

Lowanna 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
#4,225
1941
Peak year
1955
7 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lowanna

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

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Sibling names for Lowanna

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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