Lawanna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lawanna

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,381 babies named Lawanna between 1921 and 1996, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lawanna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 74 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawanna performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 565 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lawanna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 145 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Lawanna in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawanna 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 2,381 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.