Lakecia — girls' name
629 babies named Lakecia in U.S. Social Security records since 1965, with the highest year being 1982. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Lakecia was born in this single decade.
42 babies were named Lakecia in 1982 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lakecia
The Social Security Administration has registered 629 babies named Lakecia between 1965 and 2003, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakecia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 42 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakecia performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 274 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lakecia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lakecia in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lakecia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 629 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lakecia at a glance
Last recorded 2003Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lakecia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–1965
- Peak year (1982)
- 42
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2003.
629 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1982 with 42 births in a single year.
Lakecia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 274 births that decade — 44% of Lakecia's all-time total
Lakecia decade highlights
- Peak decade 274 births
- Runner-up 261 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Lakecia's strongest decade
274 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Lakecia by state
Where Lakecia concentrates geographically — total births since 1965
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 23 | 3.7% |
| #2 | Mississippi | | 11 | 1.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #4 | Florida | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #6 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #7 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #8 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.8% |
23 of 629 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 3.7% of nationwide
- Mississippi 1.7% of nationwide
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
- Florida 0.8% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1965–2003 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.