Lashonda
Lashonda was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 9,234 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,820 Americans named Lashonda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lashonda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lashonda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lashonda 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 Lashonda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,708, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
513 babies in 1977, the peak
Lashonda peaked in 1977, when 513 girls were given it, #404 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,708 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,451 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,696 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,341 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,125 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,257 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,308 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,648 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 18 | #6,649 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,609 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,005 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,907 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,875 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,867 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,087 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,115 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,657 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,459 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 171 | #1,064 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 193 | #974 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 216 | #891 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 255 | #764 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 245 | #765 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 310 | #622 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 287 | #645 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 334 | #584 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 357 | #540 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 346 | #543 | 0.21 |
| 1982 | 440 | #474 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 454 | #468 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 474 | #452 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 457 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 476 | #426 | 0.31 |
| 1977 | 513 | #404 | 0.33 |
| 1976 | 498 | #403 | 0.34 |
| 1975 | 481 | #420 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 458 | #425 | 0.31 |
| 1973 | 398 | #460 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 361 | #493 | 0.24 |
| 1971 | 285 | #602 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 210 | #720 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 111 | #1,040 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,662 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,756 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lashonda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lashonda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lashonda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lashonda, and how old are they?
8,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 9,234 Americans ever recorded as Lashonda. The median Lashonda alive today is 46 years old; half are between 40 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 7,324 people named Lashonda (7,317 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,931 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 365 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20 |
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 Lashonda born?
The states with the most babies named Lashonda are Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 760 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 663 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Louisiana | 659 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Illinois | 633 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 623 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 529 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 489 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Alabama | 407 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 354 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 338 | not ranked | 2.6× |
Where Lashonda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lashonda is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1964 it was given 4.3 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 Lashonda 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 19,826 babies since 1880, Lashonda is the most given (47% 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 Lashonda
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 Lashonda and names like it
- Compare Lashonda and LashandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLashonda peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lashonda since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lashonda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Lashonda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lashonda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.