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Lawanda

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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
Babies named Lawanda, by year of birthgirls
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Lawanda
1910s22
1920s431
1930s699
1940s710
1950s1,266
1960s2,315
1970s4,533
1980s1,659
1990s403
2000s50
2020s5

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.

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.