Lashun
Lashun was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,003 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lashun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lashun?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,442, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1970, the peak
Lashun peaked in 1970, when 68 babies were given it (59 girls, #1,610 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #11,703 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,577 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,329 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,518 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #13,647 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,502 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,463 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,912 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,527 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,978 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #11,735 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,442 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,010 | 5 | #10,165 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,546 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,855 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,680 | 6 | #8,357 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,709 | 9 | #6,026 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,102 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,830 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,193 | 6 | #7,702 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,765 | 5 | #8,669 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,128 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,708 | 6 | #6,595 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,205 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,546 | 7 | #5,310 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,021 | 5 | #6,855 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,826 | 11 | #3,832 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,933 | 11 | #3,749 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,109 | 16 | #2,906 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,136 | 12 | #3,469 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,846 | 8 | #4,389 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,123 | 15 | #2,854 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,138 | 13 | #3,023 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,438 | 17 | #2,500 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,195 | 19 | #2,239 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,869 | 16 | #2,455 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,740 | 12 | #2,927 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,787 | 16 | #2,422 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,610 | 9 | #3,418 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,083 | 8 | #3,467 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,961 | 8 | #3,258 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,595 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,103 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,665 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,503 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,913 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,081 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,598 | 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 Lashun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,003 Americans recorded as Lashun, 67% are girls and 33% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lashun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lashun, and how old are they?
An estimated 936 Americans named Lashun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 43 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 788 people named Lashun (557 women and girls, 231 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 949 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,108 babies since 1880, Lashun is the third most given (16% 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 Lashun
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 Lashun and names like it
- Compare Lashun and LashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLashun peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lashun since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Lashun.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lashun alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.