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Lashay vs Lashun

American parents have registered 2,847 Lashays since 1880, against 1,003 Lashuns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lashay Lashun

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 64 years in which either name was published, Lashay for 47 years and Lashun for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lashay Lashun
Total US births 2,8471,003
Most in one year 14068
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,800940
Median age today 3150
Peak year 19921970
Best rank 1,243rd girls1,599th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661961
Girls / boys 2,837 / 10677 / 326

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 Lashuns alive today are over 50; half the Lashays are over 31. That is 19 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: Lashay and Lashun.