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Lashonta
How to Pronounce Lashonta
Pronounced luh-SHAHN-tuh /ləˈʃɑːn.tə/Medium
Meaning: Lashonta joins the fashionable La- prefix with a Shonta or Shante element, the latter drawn from the French chanter, meaning to sing. The La- adds a lilting opening while the Shonta body gives a warm, musical middle, making a name built for its flowing sound.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Lashonta is a coined name that joins the popular La- prefix to a Shonta or Shante element, the latter echoing the French chanter, to sing. Prefixed coinages like Lashonta, Lashawnda and Latonya flowered within African American naming through the nineteen-seventies, building fresh names on rhythmic parts. Lashonta appears in United States birth records from that decade.
It was never common, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its high, so a Lashonta from then would be in her forties today. It reads as a warm, melodic coinage of its moment rather than a name in revival.
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What does the name Lashonta mean?
It joins the La- prefix with a Shonta or Shante element, tied to the French for to sing.
How do you pronounce Lashonta?
It's said luh-SHAHN-tuh /ləˈʃɑːn.tə/, three syllables stressed in the middle.
Is Lashonta a boy or girl name?
Lashonta is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Lashonta?
It has always been rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its nineteen-seventies peak.