Lashai
Lashai was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 210 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lashai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lashai?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,102, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1995, the peak
Lashai peaked in 1995, when 20 girls were given it, #4,937 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,102 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,432 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,825 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,342 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,203 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,705 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,788 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,161 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,487 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,354 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #10,349 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,520 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,937 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,139 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,814 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,294 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,925 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,223 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,317 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,916 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,083 | 5.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,759 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lashai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lashai has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lashai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lashai, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Lashai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 215 people named Lashai (208 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Lashai?
Lashai is a less common spelling of Lashay: SSA has recorded 210 Lashai and 2,847 Lashay since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,233 babies since 1880, Lashai is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Lashai (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lashai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lashai and names like it
- Compare Lashai and LashayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLashai peaked in 1995.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Lashai.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lashai alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.