Lashawn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lashawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,347 babies named Lashawn between 1955 and 2020, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 494 babies received it in a single year. Lashawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,266 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashawn performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,505 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lashawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 832 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by District of Columbia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Lashawn in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lashawn 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 7,347 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.