Lashundra
Feminine
The u and the o in this family write the same vowel. Lashondra and Lashundra are one name, and the letter in the middle is in a syllable that carries no stress and therefore no identity — which is why both spellings chart and neither can be called the correct one.
How old is the name Lashundra?
Lashundra first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Lashundra alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 1,000 people named Lashundra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lashundra most popular?
Lashundra peaked in 1979, reaching #1694 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From a base name formed inside American naming to Lashundra
Our story of Lashundra
English speakers hear five vowels and write five letters, and the correspondence between them is much worse than anybody admits. In a stressed syllable the letters do their job. In an unstressed one they do not: the vowel collapses to a single sound that has no letter of its own, and any of the five can stand for it. That is why a name like this one has two spellings, why nobody can hear the difference, and why every argument about which is right is an argument about the page rather than about the name.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name is built from a productive front element and a base that has no source outside the American naming system. The consonant cluster before the final vowel is the puzzle: the commoner form of the base has no r in it, and where the r came from has never been established. It may be from Sandra or Sondra and there is no evidence.
How the name formed
- a base name formed inside American naming
- a set of front elements attaches to it
- an r appears in the cluster with no explanation
- Lashundra appears in the record in the late 1960s
- peaks at the end of the 1970s
Related forms: Lashondra · Shondra
Pronouncing Lashundra
luh-SHUN-druh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first vowel has no identity at all and the second is the only one that matters.
Nicknames for Lashundra
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 198166 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1694reached in 1979
- Change vs 2004
- −25.0%6 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.
Lashundra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lashondra in English — spelling variant
- Shondra in English — related form
Lashundras among us
people named Lashundra 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
Lashundra 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
- It is read correctly at sight because the spelling matches the sound.
- Shundra is available as a shorter, self-contained name.
- The rhythm is the three-beat one English handles most comfortably.
- Two spellings chart and she will be given both.
- There is no meaning to give her and no source for the extra consonant.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lashundras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Lashundra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lashundra in 2025?
- Lashundra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Lashundra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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