How rare is the name Lawanda?

8,713 people in the United States have the first name Lawanda, about 1 in 34,664. It ranks #2,695 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LAWANDA

#2,695

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,713
About
1 in 34,664
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,713 people named Lawanda, 73.2% reported their origin as Black, 22.2% as White and 2.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lawanda peaked in 1977, when 598 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19172021
Peak year
1977
Births that year
598
In 2021
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,099 babies have been given the name since 1917. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lawanda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #817. The largest share of babies named Lawanda, 50.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#8,01122
1920s#2,129431
1930s#1,502699
1940s#1,684710
1950s#1,4881,266
1960s#1,1622,315
1970s#8174,539
1980s#1,6071,659
1990s#4,939403
2000s#23,63650
2020s#39,3255
Greatest Generation 1901–272.8%
Silent Generation 1928–459.9%
Baby boom 1946–6422.1%
Generation X 1965–8050.4%
Millennials 1981–9613.9%
Generation Z 1997–120.8%
2013 and later0%

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 Lawanda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lawanda has been most common in Mississippi (5×), Oklahoma (3.6×), and District of Columbia (3.4×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.17×).

9,730 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 Lawanda

#2,693 Magnolia · 8,716#2,694 Mekhi · 8,714#2,696 Zoie · 8,712#2,697 Fausto · 8,708

Spelled almost the same

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

#16,132 Landa · 704#33,571 Lawonda · 246

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