Lawanda
About 12,099 American babies have been named Lawanda since 1917, most of them around 1977. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 10,000 Lawandas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,099
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 366th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 12,093 / 6
How old the living Lawandas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,099 babies given the name since 1917, about 10,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 12 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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 the name comes from
Origin a coined name
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lawandas
- LaWanda Page (1920–2002)actress, comedian
People named Lawanda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lawanda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lawanda is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.0×), Oklahoma (3.6×), the District of Columbia (3.4×), Georgia (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Lawanda peaked:
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Lawanda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.