Lashay
Lashay was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 2,847 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Lashay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lashay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lashay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lashay is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lashay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,472, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
140 babies in 1992, the peak
Lashay peaked in 1992, when 140 girls were given it, #1,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,472 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,336 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,089 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,921 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,214 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,969 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,393 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,969 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,562 | 10.7 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,359 | 11.2 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23 | #5,723 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,967 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,179 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,696 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,345 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,650 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,296 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,634 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,001 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,712 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,047 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,653 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,994 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,498 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,553 | 32.5 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,086 | 41.7 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,908 | 45.3 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,597 | 57.4 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,851 | 45.1 |
| 1995 | 94 | #1,598 | 53.5 |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,514 | 57.7 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,303 | 71.9 |
| 1992 | 140 | #1,241 | 75.9 |
| 1991 | 127 | #1,306 | 67.7 |
| 1990 | 105 | #1,487 | 55.3 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,293 | 66.2 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,678 | 43.2 |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,538 | 47.7 |
| 1986 | 84 | #1,489 | 49.0 |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,090 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,821 | 35.0 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,172 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,840 | 34.8 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,326 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,469 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,824 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,601 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,872 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,832 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,037 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,264 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,873 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,229 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,577 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,257 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,882 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,937 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,327 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,112 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lashay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lashay has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lashay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lashay, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,847 Americans ever recorded as Lashay. The median Lashay alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,361 people named Lashay (2,312 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 935 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 185 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lashay born?
The states with the most babies named Lashay are California, Illinois and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 159 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 142 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 125 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 87 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 45 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Lashay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lashay is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1966 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lashay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,233 babies since 1880, Lashay is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Lashay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lashay
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lashay and names like it
- Compare Lashay and LaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLashay peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lashay since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lashay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Lashay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lashay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.