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Lashanda vs Laszlo

American parents have registered 4,674 Lashandas since 1880, against 1,057 Laszlos. But in 2025 it was Laszlo that was commoner, 32 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lashanda against Laszlo, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lashanda Laszlo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Laszlo for 35 years and Lashanda for 34 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lashanda Laszlo
Total US births 4,6741,057
Most in one year 29137
Babies in 2025 under 532
Estimated living today 4,500990
Median age today 4521
Peak year 19802013
Best rank 626th girls2,998th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,513th
First recorded 19621957
Girls / boys 4,674 / 00 / 1,057

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lashandas alive today are over 45; half the Laszlos are over 21. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lashanda and Laszlo.