Lashun
Feminine
Lashun is given to both — 677 girls and 326 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Lashun puts an American prefix on the phonetic spelling of an Irish name, and the record holds it mostly for daughters, with a real share of sons. The English word its front syllable approaches has an Irish sense that is a completely separate thing from the obvious one.
How old is the name Lashun?
Lashun first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Lashun alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 600 people named Lashun are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lashun most popular?
Lashun peaked in 1970, reaching #1599 nationally. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lashun
In Irish English, lashings means plenty — lashings of cream, lashings of ginger beer, in the phrase Enid Blyton put into a generation of English heads. It has nothing to do with whipping. The Irish sense comes from a different use of the verb, meaning to pour or splash out generously, and it is one of a set of words that mean something specific in Hiberno-English and something else in standard English: a press is a cupboard, a messages trip is shopping, giving out means complaining, and to be after doing something means to have just done it, which is a direct translation of an Irish grammatical construction with no equivalent elsewhere. Irish English kept structures from a language most of its speakers stopped using, and they are invisible until somebody from outside notices.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The base is an American spelling of the Irish form of John, which carries a Hebrew meaning several removes back. The prefix is a free element with no content. Nothing records the join, and the record holds the name for children of both sexes.
Pronouncing Lashun
luh-SHAWN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The prefix is light and disappears in quick speech, leaving something close to the base name alone.
Nicknames for Lashun
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 197059 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1599reached in 1970
- Change vs 1997
- −16.7%5 in 2000, 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.
Lashuns among us
people named Lashun 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
Lashun 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
- Back stress gives the name a firm landing and real carrying power.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- The spelling is phonetic and can be written from hearing.
- Lashaun, Lashawn and Lashon are all recorded and will be written for it.
- It leans to girls, but a real share of children with this spelling are boys, so forms will sometimes guess wrong.
- Only the base carries a meaning, and it carries it at several removes.
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- How many Lashuns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lashun are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lashun in 2025?
- Lashun is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lashun with classmates?
- Lashun will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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