Girls' name · since 1973
Lashena
74 babies named Lashena in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1982. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #30,506 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 74
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashena is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 74 have been recorded since 1973.
Lashena has 74 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 1992.
- #30,506 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 74 born since 1973
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lashena ranks #30,506 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 74 born since 1973, peaking in the 1980s.
- #30,506 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 74
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashena's 74 recorded births place it above 57.72% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lashena's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Lashena's full recorded timeline at 1983, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1973, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1982 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Lashena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1992
- Peak year (1982)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Lashena by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (41 births, 55% of the file).
1980s was Lashena's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Lashena births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
23 births
- 1980s
1980s
41 births
- 1990s 10
1990s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 41 births (55% of all-time use).
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- Lashena's decade-level peak was the 1980s (41 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lashena: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1982)
Similar record span (~19 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, 1973–1992 (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 Lashena 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.