Lashon
Feminine
Lashon is given to both — 1,535 girls and 716 boys since 1880. See Lashon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Lashon ends in a consonant, which almost nothing in its family does. The prefixed American names of its period overwhelmingly end in a vowel, and that vowel is what marks them as women's names; this one stops on an n instead, which is why the registers hold it for both sexes. The four letters also spell a Hebrew word, and that is a coincidence.
How old is the name Lashon?
Lashon first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Lashon alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 1,500 people named Lashon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lashon most popular?
Lashon peaked in 1970, reaching #1012 nationally. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A prefix in wide American use to Lashon
Our story of Lashon
The ending is the interesting part. Run down a list of prefixed American women's names from the middle of the century and almost every one closes on a vowel: the final a or the final ee is doing the sex-marking, because English has no grammatical gender and has to signal it some other way. A name in the same family that ends on a consonant is therefore unmarked, and unmarked names go to both sexes. That is exactly what the registers show here. It is a small demonstration of something that applies across English naming: the sound at the end of a name carries more information about who it is for than anything else in it, and a family that ends a name differently has made a decision whether or not they realized they were making one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no word behind this name. The prefix has no lexical content and the second element is a syllable rather than a word. The Hebrew word that the letters happen to spell means tongue or language, and it is a genuinely important term in Jewish law and thought, but it is not the source of this name and reading it in would be inventing a history the name does not have.
How the name formed
- A prefix in wide American use
- A second element ending in a consonant
- Lashon recorded for daughters and for sons
- The family receding across one generation
Pronouncing Lashon
luh-SHON
Two syllables with the stress at the back and the first reduced almost to nothing. The Hebrew word spelled the same way is said quite differently, with the stress at the front and a different final vowel, so the two do not sound alike.
Nicknames for Lashon
Moderate
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 1970123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1012reached in 1970
- Change vs 2005
- −37.5%5 in 2007, from 8
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.
Lashons among us
people named Lashon 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
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Fashion outlook
Lashon 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 needs no explaining.
- It works on the register for either child, which is unusual in its family and can be an advantage.
- The back stress gives it a definite shape.
- There is no meaning to give, and the Hebrew word is not it.
- The name signals nothing about sex, which cuts both ways on paperwork.
- It is firmly of the middle of the twentieth century.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Lashon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Lashon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Lashon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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