Lawanda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lawanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,093 babies named Lawanda between 1917 and 2021, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lawanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 592 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawanda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 4,533 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lawanda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lawanda in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawanda 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 12,093 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.