Lawanda
Lawanda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 366th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977592 births
- Best rank
- #366in 1977
- Since 1917
- 12,093people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,093 girls have been named Lawanda in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 592 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 592 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1970s alone account for 37%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lawanda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | |
| 1920s | 431 | |
| 1930s | 699 | |
| 1940s | 710 | |
| 1950s | 1,266 | |
| 1960s | 2,315 | |
| 1970s | 4,533 | |
| 1980s | 1,659 | |
| 1990s | 403 | |
| 2000s | 50 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Lawanda was the 366th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Lawanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Christelpeak 1978
- Kareypeak 1975
- Tawanapeak 1974
- Cristiepeak 1976
- Christiepeak 1975
- Karriepeak 1977
- Christypeak 1975
- Marciepeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.