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Lashonda vs Lasse

American parents have registered 9,234 Lashondas since 1880, against 6 Lasses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lashonda Lasse

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

Lashonda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2016. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Lashonda had 12 and Lasse had 6.

Side by side

  Lashonda Lasse
Total US births 9,2346
Most in one year 5136
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,8006
Median age today 4519
Peak year 19772006
Best rank 404th girls10,662nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19642006
Girls / boys 9,234 / 00 / 6

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 Lashondas alive today are over 45; half the Lasses are over 19. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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