Lawan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lawan

The Social Security Administration has registered 96 babies named Lawan between 1954 and 1982, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lawan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Lawan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawan performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 37 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Lawan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in District of Columbia, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lawan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawan 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 96 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.