Leshawn
Leshawn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,457 among boys’ names; 1,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Leshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 25 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leshawn?
#11,457 among boys’ names, 2025
Leshawn fell from #5,637 in 2015 to #11,457 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
44 babies in 1976, the peak
Leshawn peaked in 1976, when 44 babies were given it (27 boys, #1,855 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,457 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,354 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,215 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,594 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,557 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,340 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,547 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 16 | #5,637 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,258 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 14 | #6,106 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 19 | #4,958 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,842 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,921 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 18 | #5,226 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 19 | #4,990 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 16 | #5,579 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 19 | #4,792 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 14 | #5,756 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,390 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 16 | #4,945 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 13 | #5,594 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #5,041 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 13 | #5,466 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 17 | #4,255 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 19 | #3,791 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 11 | #5,504 | |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,543 | 18 | #3,764 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 14 | #4,414 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,237 | 18 | #3,688 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 24 | #2,907 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 14 | #4,239 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,954 | 20 | #3,176 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,238 | 16 | #3,704 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,590 | 12 | #4,419 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,475 | 16 | #3,288 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 11 | #4,126 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,363 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,038 | 17 | #2,897 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,818 | 11 | #3,828 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,707 | 20 | #2,462 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,879 | 10 | #4,113 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,338 | 17 | #2,737 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,117 | 23 | #2,253 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,466 | 23 | #2,203 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,784 | 16 | #2,745 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,383 | 18 | #2,519 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,889 | 27 | #1,855 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,046 | 22 | #2,100 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,650 | 14 | #2,745 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,723 | 14 | #2,664 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,210 | 22 | #1,951 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,583 | 23 | #1,891 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,507 | 8 | #3,702 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,312 | 6 | #4,210 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,248 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,453 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,560 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,086 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,335 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Leshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,118 Americans recorded as Leshawn, 28% are girls and 72% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Leshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leshawn, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,118 Americans ever recorded as Leshawn. The median Leshawn alive today is 39 years old; half are between 25 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 794 people named Leshawn (251 women and girls, 543 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 404 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 319 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 247 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 86 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leshawn
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 Leshawn and names like it
- Compare Leshawn and CheBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLeshawn peaked in 1976.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Leshawn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leshawn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.