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Lashawn vs Lashawnda

American parents have registered 10,628 Lashawns since 1880, against 2,227 Lashawndas. Lashawn is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lashawn against Lashawnda, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lashawn Lashawnda

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

Lashawn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Lashawn had 185 and Lashawnda had 106.

Side by side

  Lashawn Lashawnda
Total US births 10,6282,227
Most in one year 547118
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 10,0002,100
Median age today 4743
Peak year 19701978
Best rank 444th girls1,104th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19551967
Girls / boys 7,349 / 3,2792,227 / 0

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 Lashawns alive today are over 47; half the Lashawndas are over 43. That is 4 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: Lashawn and Lashawnda.