Lashanti — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lashanti

The Social Security Administration has registered 349 babies named Lashanti between 1979 and 2013, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashanti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 108 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 287 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lashanti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lashanti in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lashanti 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 349 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.