Lashaunda
Feminine
Lashaunda carries an Irish vowel that arrived through a completely different route. The au in the middle is there because the base was Shaun, which is an English spelling of an Irish name, and the Irish vowel it represents came into English naming with a set of names that had nothing to do with the prefix now sitting in front of it.
How old is the name Lashaunda?
Lashaunda first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Lashaunda alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 1,400 people named Lashaunda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lashaunda most popular?
Lashaunda peaked in 1978, reaching #1202 nationally. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From An Irish form of John spelled by English ears to Lashaunda
Our story of Lashaunda
Track the vowel. Irish spells the name with an ea and says it with a broad a; English speakers hearing it wrote au, which is how English spells that vowel in words like caught and taught; the resulting spelling entered American naming as a unit and was then treated as raw material. By the time a prefix is fixed to the front and a feminine ending to the back, the au is four steps from the Irish orthography that produced it and is doing a job nobody along the way intended. That is the ordinary life of a borrowed spelling: it arrives representing a specific sound in a specific language, gets absorbed, and ends up as a shape that can be used anywhere.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The prefix has no lexical content and the base has been through so many hands that nothing recoverable survives. Behind Shaun is the Irish form of John and behind that a Hebrew sentence about divine favor, but a prefixed name built on an English spelling of an Irish borrowing does not really carry that meaning in any useful sense. The ending is a feminine marker.
How the name formed
- An Irish form of John spelled by English ears
- The au spelling entering American naming as a unit
- A prefix and a feminine ending attached
- Lashaunda and Lashonda in the registers together
Pronouncing Lashaunda
luh-SHAWN-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and the first reduced almost to nothing. The au and a plain aw spell the same vowel here, which is why Lashonda and Lashaunda are identical in speech.
Nicknames for Lashaunda
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 1979107 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1202reached in 1978
- Change vs 2001
- −16.7%5 in 2004, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lashaundas among us
people named Lashaunda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lashaunda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is transparent and nobody has to be taught it.
- Shaunda is a strong short form that stands entirely on its own.
- The middle stress gives it a definite shape.
- There is no meaning to give, and the honest answer describes the construction.
- Lashonda is commoner and this spelling will be converted into it.
- It is firmly of one stretch of American naming.
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- How many Lashaundas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Lashaunda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Lashaunda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Lashaunda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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