Lacresha
Lacresha was last recorded in 1998, when 9 babies were given it; 1,177 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Lacresha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lacresha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lacresha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lacresha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lacresha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,738, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1980, the peak
Lacresha peaked in 1980, when 66 girls were given it, #1,715 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | #9,738 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,496 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,945 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,157 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,930 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,537 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,662 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,327 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,583 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,129 | 31.5 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 35 | #2,949 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,174 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,159 | 28.6 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,335 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,246 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,003 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,887 | 33.7 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,744 | 39.0 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,715 | 39.8 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,203 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,714 | 39.8 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,076 | 30.0 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,854 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,762 | 36.4 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,527 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,711 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,006 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,635 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,371 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,250 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,923 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,455 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,536 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lacresha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lacresha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lacresha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lacresha, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,177 Americans ever recorded as Lacresha. The median Lacresha alive today is 43 years old; half are between 37 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 891 people named Lacresha (891 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 446 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 668 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lacresha born?
The states with the most babies named Lacresha are Texas, California and Michigan, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 68 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Lacresha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lacresha is most over-represented in Texas: since 1966 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lacresha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,491 babies since 1880, Lacresha is the most given (47% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lacresha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lacresha and names like it
- Compare Lacresha and LacrishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLacresha peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lacresha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lacresha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Lacresha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lacresha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.