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Lashaunda vs Lashon

American parents have registered 2,251 Lashons since 1880, against 1,421 Lashaundas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lashaunda 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 51 years and Lashaunda for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lashaunda Lashon
Total US births 1,4212,251
Most in one year 107146
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,4002,100
Median age today 4450
Peak year 19791970
Best rank 1,210th girls1,012th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671957
Girls / boys 1,421 / 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 Lashaundas are over 44. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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