Girl name#1,537 of girl names
Lashawn
Pronounced EH1 L EY1 EH1 S HH AO1 N (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1970
- 66 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Lashawn?
Lashawn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1955. It has been given to 12,770 children — the 1,537th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 68 births across the past decade, against a peak of 558 in a single year. That peak was in 1970.
Lashaun is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Lashawn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Lashaun
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- EH1 L EY1 EH1 S HH AO1 N · L AA1 S HH AO1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 1111 · 11
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Lashawn
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Lashawn
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Lashawn?
- Lashawn ranks 1,537th among girls' names in US records, with 12,770 births since 1955. Over the past decade it accounts for 68.
- Is Lashawn a unisex name?
- No. Lashawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Lashawn most popular?
- 1970, when 558 children were given the name. It has been in use for 66 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Lashawn spelled?
- Lashaun. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.