# LaShawn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lashawn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,628 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,279 / 7,349 (69% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 16, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 18 | 6,653 |
| 2005 | 16 | 7,345 |
| 2006 | 20 | 6,499 |
| 2007 | 17 | 7,600 |
| 2008 | 24 | 5,870 |
| 2009 | 16 | 7,906 |
| 2010 | 11 | 10,175 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11,738 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,346 |
| 2014 | 12 | 9,294 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,572 |
| 2016 | 6 | 15,409 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,263 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,230 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,672 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 54 | 2,363 |
| 2012 | 52 | 2,434 |
| 2013 | 47 | 2,581 |
| 2014 | 52 | 2,449 |
| 2015 | 35 | 3,278 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,096 |
| 2017 | 31 | 3,557 |
| 2018 | 33 | 3,422 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,728 |
| 2020 | 34 | 3,310 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,571 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,139 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,174 |
| 2024 | 17 | 5,565 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,658 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |

## People named LaShawn

- LaShawn Merritt, American track and field athlete
- LaShawn Daniels, American songwriter, vocal producer and arranger

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.