Lakeesha
Lakeesha was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 1,370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Lakeesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 43 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakeesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakeesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,762, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
116 babies in 1977, the peak
Lakeesha peaked in 1977, when 116 girls were given it, #1,108 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,762 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,656 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,337 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,187 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,429 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,168 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,564 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,156 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,307 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,957 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 28 | #3,611 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,178 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,817 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,652 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,897 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,094 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,056 | 29.3 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,481 | 47.8 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,635 | 42.6 |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,403 | 53.6 |
| 1979 | 99 | #1,285 | 61.7 |
| 1978 | 106 | #1,189 | 69.2 |
| 1977 | 116 | #1,108 | 75.7 |
| 1976 | 106 | #1,129 | 72.4 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,320 | 56.9 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,306 | 55.9 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,243 | 57.6 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,194 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,638 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,075 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakeesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakeesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakeesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakeesha, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,370 Americans ever recorded as Lakeesha. The median Lakeesha alive today is 47 years old; half are between 43 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,015 people named Lakeesha (1,011 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 497 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 21 |
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 Lakeesha born?
The states with the most babies named Lakeesha are Illinois, New York and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 104 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 65 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 36 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 26 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lakeesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakeesha is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1970 it was given 1.5 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 Lakeesha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,892 babies since 1880, Lakeesha is the sixth most given (3.2% 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 Lakeesha
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 Lakeesha and names like it
- Compare Lakeesha and LakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakeesha peaked in 1977.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakeesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Lakeesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lakeesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.