Entry № 5761 · American origin

LaShawn LaShawn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-SHAWN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
American
Meaning
"God is gracious (LaShawn Merritt, Olympic sprinter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (American)

A name that means "god is gracious (lashawn merritt, olympic sprinter)".

LaShawn is a 20th-century African American name combining the prefix La- with Shawn (from the Irish Seán / Hebrew Yochanan, "God is gracious"). LaShawn Ford — Illinois state representative. LaShawn Merritt is unisex but predominantly feminine in 1980s-90s US naming.

God is gracious.

The name in its native script.

LaShawn
Transliteration
LaShawn
Pronunciation
/ ləˈʃɔːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where LaShawn stands.

LaShawn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

LaShawns before her.

Real people
LaShawn Daniels
American Grammy songwriter.
1977 – 2019
LaShawn Ford
Illinois state representative.
born 1972
In fiction
LaShawn
Various American culture.

Names connected to LaShawn.

The number behind LaShawn.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of LaShawn reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.