girls:
1.5k births since 1957
#4212 (26th percentile)
boys:
710 births since 1966
#3877 (15th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1957
#5550 (28th percentile)
The name Lashon is the #5,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,245 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 28.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,212 (26.3% percentile) for all time with 1,535 births since 1957. For boys, it ranks #3,877 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 710 births since 1966.
Lashon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Lashon is available in 65 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 49 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 Lashon has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lashon were girls. Interestingly, until around 1989, the name was more popular for girls (78.2% girls from 1957 to 1988), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (64.4% boys from 1989 to 2023).
For girls, Lashon reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 15.3% percentile (ranked #655) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 67 births per million (ranked 15.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
For boys, Lashon reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #618) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lashon ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lashon".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Lashon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.1% confident that Lashon is pronounced as luh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-SHAWN, at 27.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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