girls:
1.3k births since 1959
#4447 (22nd percentile)
boys:
877 births since 1967
#3710 (19th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1959
#5636 (27th percentile)
The name Lashaun is the #5,636 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,152 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 27.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,447 (22.2% percentile) for all time with 1,275 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #3,710 (19.1% percentile) for all time with 877 births since 1967.
Lashaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 1967 for boys). Birth data for Lashaun is available in 63 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 51 years for girls). 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.
The name Lashaun has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lashaun were girls. Interestingly, until around 1999, the name was more popular for girls (69.3% girls from 1959 to 1998), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (77.5% boys from 1999 to 2023).
For girls, Lashaun reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 8.3% percentile (ranked #700) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Lashaun reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #634) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lashaun ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 21.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lashaun".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lashaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Lashaun is pronounced as luh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-SHAHN, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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