Lashon
Lashon was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 2,251 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Lashon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 38 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lashon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lashon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,234, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
146 babies in 1971, the peak
Lashon peaked in 1971, when 146 babies were given it (112 girls, #1,077 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,772 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,667 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,406 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,208 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #13,305 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,328 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,569 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,221 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,271 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,864 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 13 | #6,513 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #9,258 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 7 | #10,301 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 13 | #6,661 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 14 | #6,270 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,234 | 13 | #6,477 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,720 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,478 | 11 | #6,905 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 11 | #6,797 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,913 | 6 | #10,329 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,195 | 8 | #8,127 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,604 | 8 | #8,003 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,546 | 12 | #5,758 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,958 | 10 | #6,306 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,317 | 7 | #8,085 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,355 | 11 | #5,498 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,373 | 17 | #3,936 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,443 | 12 | #4,982 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,172 | 16 | #4,017 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,334 | 16 | #3,937 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,170 | 10 | #5,473 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,811 | 9 | #5,759 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,113 | 12 | #4,558 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,415 | 13 | #4,174 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,838 | 12 | #4,062 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,586 | 10 | #4,427 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,326 | 5 | #7,349 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,719 | 6 | #6,209 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,087 | 7 | #5,309 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,379 | 6 | #5,915 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,824 | 13 | #3,414 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,296 | 10 | #4,021 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,562 | 21 | #2,408 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,648 | 12 | #3,468 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,255 | 19 | #2,434 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,147 | 19 | #2,420 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,723 | 27 | #1,853 |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,339 | 26 | #1,861 |
| 1974 | 93 | #1,201 | 40 | #1,362 |
| 1973 | 103 | #1,100 | 25 | #1,800 |
| 1972 | 103 | #1,102 | 30 | #1,585 |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,077 | 34 | #1,484 |
| 1970 | 123 | #1,012 | 11 | #2,992 |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,120 | 14 | #2,368 |
| 1968 | 76 | #1,259 | 15 | #2,153 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,234 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,610 | 6 | #3,746 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,785 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,385 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,544 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,229 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,219 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,045 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,764 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,070 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,763 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lashon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,251 Americans recorded as Lashon, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lashon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lashon, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,251 Americans ever recorded as Lashon. The median Lashon alive today is 51 years old; half are between 38 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 1,690 people named Lashon (1,233 women and girls, 457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 77 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 376 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 237 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 69 |
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 Lashon born?
The states with the most babies named Lashon are Illinois, California and New York, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 187 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 143 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 73 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| District of Columbia | 64 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Florida | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lashon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lashon is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1957 it was given 1.6 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 Lashon 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,108 babies since 1880, Lashon is the most given (37% of them).
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 Lashon
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 Lashon and names like it
- Compare Lashon and LashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLashon peaked in 1971.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lashon since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Lashon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lashon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.