Lawanda
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Meaning
“A modern coinage combining the prefix 'La-' with Wanda, itself of Germanic or Slavic origin linked to the Wends.”
How popular is Lawanda around the world?
In the United States, 5 babies were named Lawanda between 2020 and 2025. At the 2022 census, 184 people in Brazil were named Lawanda, ranked 26,983rd, with a median age of 19.
Lawanda is on the official records of the United States and Brazil.
United States
1 in 4.4M
In the United States, 5 babies were named Lawanda between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lawanda peaked in the 1960s and the 1980s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
1 in 1M
At the 2022 census, 184 people in Brazil were named Lawanda, ranked 26,983rd, with a median age of 19.
Among people named Lawanda living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Lawanda
Most people given the name Lawanda in the United States were born between 1960 and 1979. The Lawanda you meet today is most often in her 40s or 50s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Lawanda deep dive
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