Girls' name · since 1971
Lashonta
Lashonta has 238 recorded births since 1971 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1978 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,077 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 238
- born since 1971
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashonta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 238 have been recorded since 1971.
Lashonta has 238 recorded births among girls since 1971, 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 1971 to 2002.
- #18,077 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 238 born since 1971
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lashonta ranks #18,077 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 238 born since 1971, peaking in the 1980s.
- #18,077 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 238
- born since 1971
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lashonta's 238 recorded births place it above 74.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lashonta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lashonta splits its recorded history at 1985: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1995 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1978 peak of 21 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lashonta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–2002
- Peak year (1978)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Lashonta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (107 births, 45% of the file).
1980s was Lashonta's strongest decade.
107 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Lashonta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
79 births
- 1980s
1980s
107 births
- 1990s
1990s
46 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 107 births (45% of all-time use).
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- Lashonta's decade-level peak was the 1980s (107 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2000s -- 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 Lashonta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1978)
Similar record span (~31 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, 1971–2002 (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 Lashonta 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.