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Lasha vs Lashon

American parents have registered 2,251 Lashons since 1880, against 1,033 Lashas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lasha 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 66 years in which either name was published, Lashon for 49 years and Lasha for 17 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Lasha Lashon
Total US births 1,0332,251
Most in one year 59146
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,0002,100
Median age today 3650
Peak year 19911970
Best rank 2,215th girls1,012th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661957
Girls / boys 1,033 / 01,535 / 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 Lashas are over 36. That is 14 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: Lasha and Lashon.