Leshawn
Masculine · “Hebrew Yohanan”
Leshawn is given to both — 806 boys and 312 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
The La- and Le- prefixes are older than most people assume. They are documented in American birth records from the 1920s and 1930s, two generations before the period they are usually attributed to.
How old is the name Leshawn?
Leshawn first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Leshawn alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 800 people named Leshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leshawn most popular?
Leshawn peaked in 1976, reaching #1828 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 8,867 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Leshawn
The story of Leshawn
The prefix inventory of American naming is small, perhaps a dozen productive elements, and each one can be dated from the records. La- and Le- appear steadily from the 1920s, well before the decades they are usually associated with, and they were in ordinary use for two generations before the coinage wave of the 1960s and 1970s made them conspicuous. That matters for reading the data honestly: a device that looks like a recent invention often turns out to have a long quiet history, and the moment it becomes visible is not the moment it began. What changed in the 1970s was volume and range, not the mechanism. The second element here is a very old name that has passed through Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Irish and American spelling in turn.
Meaning
Hebrew Yohanan, Yah is gracious
Leshawn joins the Le- prefix to Shawn, the English respelling of Irish Sean, and behind it Hebrew Yohanan. The prefix carries no meaning of its own. The peak is 1976.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Sean
- Shawn
- Leshawn
Related forms: LeShawn · Lashawn
Pronouncing Leshawn
luh-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. The prefix is unstressed and reduces to a schwa.
Nicknames for Leshawn
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 boys named
- 199324 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1828reached in 1976
- Change vs 2021
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
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.
Leshawn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- LeShawn in English — spelling variant
- Lashawn in English — related form
Leshawns among us
people named Leshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Leshawn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Donel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leshawn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Donel climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Donel's path sketches the road Leshawn is walking now.
Leshawn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Leshawn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leshawn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Shawn works as a complete name inside it.
- Two syllables with a firm ending.
- The spelling is phonetic and unambiguous.
- The internal-capital form LeShawn competes with this one.
- The prefix has no meaning to offer.
- The 1976 peak dates it closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leshawns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Leshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leshawn in 2025?
- Leshawn ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leshawn?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Leshawn — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leshawn with classmates?
- Leshawn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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