Leshawn — boys' name

What the Data Says About Leshawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 800 babies named Leshawn between 1969 and 2021, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Leshawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Leshawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 312 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leshawn performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 187 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Leshawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Leshawn in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leshawn 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 800 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.