How popular is the name Lawanda?

Lawanda ranks 1,266th among girls' names in US records, with 12,099 births since 1917. Over the past decade it accounts for 5.

Is Lawanda a unisex name?

No. Lawanda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1977, when 592 children were given the name. It has been in use for 105 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,266 of girl names

Pronounced L AA1 AE1 N D AA1 (ARPABET)

Lawanda is a girls' name, and first appears in 1917. It has been given to 12,099 children — the 1,266th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 5 births across the past decade, against a peak of 592 in a single year. That peak was in 1977.

1977Girls: 592Boys: 6

Phonetic detail

Pronunciations:: L AA1 AE1 N D AA1 · L AA1 AE1 N D IY1 EY1 · L AA1 AH0 N D AA1 · L AA1 AH0 N D IY1 EY1 · L AO1 AE1 N D AA1 · L AO1 AE1 N D IY1 EY1 · L AO1 AH0 N D AA1 · L AO1 AH0 N D IY1 EY1
Stress pattern:: 111 · 1111 · 101 · 1011 · 111 · 1111 · 101 · 1011
Syllables:: 4

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lawanda?: Lawanda ranks 1,266th among girls' names in US records, with 12,099 births since 1917. Over the past decade it accounts for 5.
Is Lawanda a unisex name?: No. Lawanda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lawanda most popular?: 1977, when 592 children were given the name. It has been in use for 105 years and is still recorded as of 2024.