Lashawnda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lashawnda

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,227 babies named Lashawnda between 1967 and 2011, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashawnda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 118 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashawnda performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 948 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lashawnda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 187 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lashawnda in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lashawnda 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 2,227 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.