Lawana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lawana

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,028 babies named Lawana between 1918 and 2000, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lawana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawana performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 653 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lawana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Lawana in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawana 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 3,028 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.