How rare is the name Lashawn?

7,636 people in the United States have the first name Lashawn, about 1 in 39,554. It ranks #2,951 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LASHAWN

#2,951

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,636
About
1 in 39,554
This common or more
81.3%
Who bears it

Of the 7,636 people named Lashawn, 89.1% reported their origin as Black, 4.4% as two or more races and 3.3% as White. 72.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lashawn peaked in 1971, when 547 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19552025
Peak year
1971
Births that year
547
In 2025*
13 ▼98%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 10,628 babies have been given the name since 1955. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Lashawn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #834. The largest share of babies named Lashawn, 54.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#9,69029
1960s#1,4981,397
1970s#8344,337
1980s#1,4711,931
1990s#2,0611,508
2000s#3,920796
2010s#5,733491
2020s#9,353139
Baby boom 1946–641.9%
Generation X 1965–8054.5%
Millennials 1981–9627%
Generation Z 1997–1212.4%
2013 and later4.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lashawn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lashawn has been most common in District of Columbia (20×), Maryland (3.5×), and Illinois (2.9×), and least common in Missouri (0.22×).

7,176 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Lashawn

#2,949 Jerrod · 7,643#2,949 Ned · 7,643#2,952 Bristol · 7,629#2,953 Austen · 7,627

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lashawn, most common first.

#8,563 Lashon · 1,690#8,842 Lashaun · 1,614#10,034 Lashawna · 1,349#13,675 Lashana · 878#14,820 Lashun · 788#17,303 Lashanna · 640#18,954 Lashauna · 564#20,986 Lashan · 488

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