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Lashonda vs Lashondra

American parents have registered 9,234 Lashondas since 1880, against 1,097 Lashondras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lashonda against Lashondra, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lashonda Lashondra

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

Lashonda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2016. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Lashonda had 18 and Lashondra had 6.

Side by side

  Lashonda Lashondra
Total US births 9,2341,097
Most in one year 51368
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,8001,100
Median age today 4543
Peak year 19771980
Best rank 404th girls1,677th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19641969
Girls / boys 9,234 / 01,097 / 0

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 Lashondas alive today are over 45; half the Lashondras are over 43. That is 2 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: Lashonda and Lashondra.