girls:
4.7k births since 1962
#2486 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1962
#3995 (48th percentile)
The name Lashanda is the #3,995 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,674 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 48.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,486 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 4,674 births since 1962.
Lashanda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Lashanda is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1962 and 2010. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Lashanda reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 35.4% percentile (ranked #489) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 184 births per million (ranked 35.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lashanda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lashanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Lashanda is pronounced as luh-SHAN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-SHAHN-duh, at 40.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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