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Lashonda vs Lashun

American parents have registered 9,234 Lashondas since 1880, against 1,003 Lashuns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lashonda 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 58 years in which either name was published, Lashonda for 49 years and Lashun for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Lashonda Lashun
Total US births 9,2341,003
Most in one year 51368
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,800940
Median age today 4550
Peak year 19771970
Best rank 404th girls1,599th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19641961
Girls / boys 9,234 / 0677 / 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 Lashondas are over 45. That is 5 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 Lashun.