Lasonya
Lasonya was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 1,700 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Lasonya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 46 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lasonya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lasonya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,208, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1971, the peak
Lasonya peaked in 1971, when 128 girls were given it, #986 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,208 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,165 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,374 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,632 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,688 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,156 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,543 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,782 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,832 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,958 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 24 | #3,688 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,701 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,731 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,650 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,377 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,555 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,972 | 32.4 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,231 | 27.1 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,719 | 39.9 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,663 | 41.8 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,569 | 45.0 |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,470 | 48.5 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,359 | 54.2 |
| 1974 | 104 | #1,119 | 70.9 |
| 1973 | 98 | #1,134 | 67.2 |
| 1972 | 124 | #974 | 81.5 |
| 1971 | 128 | #986 | 76.9 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,233 | 52.1 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,379 | 41.5 |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,369 | 40.8 |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,501 | 33.9 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,521 | 31.9 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,820 | 22.7 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,995 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,739 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,360 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,018 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,618 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,780 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lasonya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lasonya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lasonya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lasonya, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,700 Americans ever recorded as Lasonya. The median Lasonya alive today is 52 years old; half are between 46 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 1,361 people named Lasonya (1,359 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 91 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11 |
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 Lasonya born?
The states with the most babies named Lasonya are Texas, Alabama and Georgia, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 192 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 109 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Georgia | 84 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Mississippi | 70 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Tennessee | 53 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 45 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 38 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 35 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Lasonya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lasonya is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1958 it was given 3.5 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 Lasonya 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,150 babies since 1880, Lasonya is the most given (79% 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 Lasonya
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 Lasonya and names like it
- Compare Lasonya and LasoniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLasonya peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lasonya since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Lasonya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lasonya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.