Lakasha
Lakasha was last recorded in 2002, when 7 babies were given it; 308 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakasha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,980, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1980, the peak
Lakasha peaked in 1980, when 24 girls were given it, #3,456 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #12,980 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,818 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,016 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,659 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,681 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,138 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,990 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,601 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,756 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,874 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 15 | #5,182 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,975 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,516 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,097 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,783 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,817 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,427 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,456 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,321 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,568 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,534 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,230 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,454 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,168 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,915 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,281 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakasha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakasha, and how old are they?
An estimated 296 Americans named Lakasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 213 people named Lakasha (211 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,892 babies since 1880, Lakasha is the eighth most given (<1% 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 Lakasha
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 Lakasha and names like it
- Compare Lakasha and LakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLakasha peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Lakasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lakasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.