Girls' name · since 1950
Lewanda
169 babies named Lewanda in U.S. Social Security records since 1950, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,559 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 169
- born since 1950
- 1970s
- peak decade
Lewanda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 169 have been recorded since 1950.
Lewanda has 169 recorded births among girls since 1950, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1950 to 1981.
- #21,559 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 169 born since 1950
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lewanda ranks #21,559 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 169 born since 1950, peaking in the 1970s.
- #21,559 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 169
- born since 1950
- 1970s
- peak decade
Lewanda's 169 recorded births place it above 70.16% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lewanda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lewanda splits its recorded history at 1972: 62% of all births land in the more recent half, 38% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1950 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1972 peak of 23 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lewanda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1950–1981
- Peak year (1972)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Lewanda by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (102 births, 60% of the file).
1970s was Lewanda's strongest decade.
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Lewanda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 15
1950s
15 births
- 1960s 38
1960s
38 births
- 1970s
1970s
102 births
- 1980s 14
1980s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 102 births (60% of all-time use).
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- Lewanda's decade-level peak was the 1970s (102 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lewanda: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1972)
Similar record span (~31 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1950–1981 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lewanda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.