Girls' name · since 1981
Lashai
210 babies named Lashai in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,301 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 210
- born since 1981
- 1990s
- peak decade
Lashai sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 210 recorded since 1981.
Lashai has 210 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1981 to 2013.
- #19,301 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 210 born since 1981
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lashai ranks #19,301 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 210 born since 1981, peaking in the 1990s.
- #19,301 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 210
- born since 1981
- 1990s
- peak decade
Lashai's 210 recorded births place it above 73.27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lashai's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Lashai's full recorded timeline at 1997, 42% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 58% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1988, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1995 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Lashai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–2013
- Peak year (1995)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Lashai by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (128 births, 61% of the file).
1990s was Lashai's strongest decade.
128 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 61% of all-time use.
Lashai births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 28
1980s
28 births
- 1990s
1990s
128 births
- 2000s 49
2000s
49 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 128 births (61% of all-time use).
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- Lashai's decade-level peak was the 1990s (128 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lashai: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1995)
Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1981–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lashai draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.