girls:
7.3k births since 1955
#1903 (67th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1964
#2190 (52nd percentile)
overall:
10.6k births since 1955
#2573 (67th percentile)
The name Lashawn is the #2,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,595 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 66.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,903 (66.7% percentile) for all time with 7,347 births since 1955. For boys, it ranks #2,190 (52.2% percentile) for all time with 3,248 births since 1964.
Lashawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for girls and 1964 for boys). Birth data for Lashawn is available in 68 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (63 years for girls and 60 years for boys). 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 Lashawn has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (69.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lashawn were girls. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for girls (76.7% girls from 1955 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (79.0% boys from 2000 to 2023).
For girls, Lashawn reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 48.3% percentile (ranked #398) with 274 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 283 births per million (ranked 48.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Lashawn reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 14.7% percentile (ranked #575) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 62 births per million (ranked 14.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lashawn ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 22.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lashawn".
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Our model is 73.0% confident that Lashawn is pronounced as luh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-SHAHN, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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