Lashanna — girls' name
806 babies named Lashanna in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Lashanna was born in this single decade.
67 babies were named Lashanna in 1977 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lashanna
The Social Security Administration has registered 806 babies named Lashanna between 1968 and 2007, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashanna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 67 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashanna performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lashanna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lashanna in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lashanna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 806 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lashanna at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lashanna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1968
- Peak year (1977)
- 67
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
806 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1977 with 67 births in a single year.
Lashanna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 335 births that decade — 42% of Lashanna's all-time total
Lashanna decade highlights
- Peak decade 335 births
- Runner-up 309 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Lashanna's strongest decade
335 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Lashanna by state
Where Lashanna concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 33 | 4.1% |
| #2 | California | | 27 | 3.3% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 16 | 2.0% |
| #4 | Texas | | 16 | 2.0% |
| #5 | North Carolina | | 11 | 1.4% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 11 | 1.4% |
| #7 | Alabama | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #8 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.6% |
33 of 806 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.1% of nationwide
- California 3.3% of nationwide
- Illinois 2.0% of nationwide
- Texas 2.0% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2007 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.