Lashonda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lashonda

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,235 babies named Lashonda between 1964 and 2016, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashonda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 513 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashonda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 4,137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lashonda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 760 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Lashonda in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lashonda 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 9,235 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.