How Many People Are Named Lashonda?

8,839

people named Lashonda are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 38,667 people in the US has this name

Based on 9,234 babies named Lashonda in Social Security records from 1964 to 2016, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,658

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,471

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Peak Year

1977

513 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Combination of the popular prefix La with the name SHONDA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lashonda in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lashonda alive today is about 44 years old, and 95% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 39 and 50 in 2025.

Under 30 449
5.1%
30 to 59 8,372
94.7%
60 and over 18
0.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lashonda first appears in the records in 1964 and was given most often in 1977, to 513 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2016.

Babies given the name each year, 1964 to 2016

🏆 Rank History

Lashonda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #403, in 1976.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#403 (1976)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#474 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lashonda alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lashonda were born in Texas than in any other state: about 723 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lashonda was given 5.6 times as often in Mississippi, 4.2 times in Louisiana and 3.4 times in North Carolina.

Texas 723
North Carolina 637
Louisiana 629
Illinois 605
Georgia 596
Florida 505
Mississippi 469
Alabama 389
California 337
South Carolina 325
Michigan 308
Tennessee 305
Missouri 299
Ohio 276
New Jersey 265
New York 249
Pennsylvania 160
Virginia 158
Arkansas 126
Kentucky 80
Indiana 69
Oklahoma 68
Maryland 46
Wisconsin 28
Connecticut 19
District of Columbia 9
Arizona 5
New Mexico 5

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