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Lasean vs Lashon

American parents have registered 2,251 Lashons since 1880, against 573 Laseans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lasean against Lashon, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lasean Lashon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Lashon for 57 years and Lasean for 10 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Lasean Lashon
Total US births 5732,251
Most in one year 26146
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5502,100
Median age today 3150
Peak year 20091970
Best rank 4,748th boys1,012th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671957
Girls / boys 155 / 4181,535 / 716

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lashons alive today are over 50; half the Laseans are over 31. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lasean and Lashon.