Girls' name · since 1973
Lashasta
Lashasta has 23 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1973 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #44,187 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 23
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashasta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 23 have been recorded since 1973.
Lashasta has 23 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 1984.
- #44,187 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 23 born since 1973
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lashasta ranks #44,187 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 23 born since 1973, peaking in the 1980s.
- #44,187 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 23
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashasta's 23 recorded births place it above 38.51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lashasta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lashasta splits its recorded history at 1983: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1978 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1973 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lashasta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1984
- Peak year (1973)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Lashasta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (12 births, 52% of the file).
1980s was Lashasta's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Lashasta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 12 births (52% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lashasta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1973)
Similar record span (~11 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, 1973–1984 (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 Lashasta 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.