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Lashaun

Lashaun reached its high-water mark in 1969 at number 1,402, and has been recorded 2,162 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 2,100 Lashauns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Lashaun

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,275 girls and 887 boys in all, and in 2008 the split was 9 to 16.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 39 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,162
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
43
Peak year
1969
Best rank
1,402nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1959
Girls / boys
1,275 / 887

How old the living Lashauns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,162 babies given the name since 1959, about 2,100 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Lashaun is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lashaun is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (22.4×), Illinois (7.3×), New York (2.4×), California (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1969

The most popular girls’ names the year Lashaun peaked:

All the names of 1969

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Lashaun against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.