Lashonna — girls' name
429 babies named Lashonna in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Lashonna was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Lashonna in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lashonna
The Social Security Administration has registered 429 babies named Lashonna between 1967 and 2005, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lashonna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lashonna performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 167 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lashonna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lashonna in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lashonna 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 429 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.
Lashonna at a glance
Last recorded 2005Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lashonna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–1967
- Peak year (1979)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2005.
429 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 29 births in a single year.
Lashonna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 167 births that decade — 39% of Lashonna's all-time total
Lashonna decade highlights
- Peak decade 167 births
- Runner-up 161 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Lashonna's strongest decade
167 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Lashonna by state
Where Lashonna concentrates geographically — total births since 1967
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 429 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1967–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.