Lakeisha
Lakeisha was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 12,886 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,400 Americans named Lakeisha 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakeisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lakeisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lakeisha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
An African-American creation from the 1970s, possibly La- + Keisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lakeisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,721, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
824 babies in 1979, the peak
Lakeisha peaked in 1979, when 824 girls were given it, #291 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,721 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,789 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,632 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,606 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,660 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,222 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,384 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,557 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,010 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,986 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,645 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,286 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,736 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,215 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,467 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,169 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,637 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,891 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,227 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,772 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,789 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,385 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,103 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,640 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,407 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 167 | #1,100 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,006 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 174 | #1,047 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 227 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 308 | #701 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 357 | #628 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 392 | #587 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 435 | #531 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 463 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 524 | #428 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 526 | #418 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 579 | #390 | 0.34 |
| 1984 | 524 | #405 | 0.31 |
| 1983 | 517 | #420 | 0.31 |
| 1982 | 607 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1981 | 648 | #361 | 0.39 |
| 1980 | 729 | #331 | 0.44 |
| 1979 | 824 | #291 | 0.51 |
| 1978 | 812 | #286 | 0.53 |
| 1977 | 798 | #296 | 0.52 |
| 1976 | 679 | #328 | 0.46 |
| 1975 | 513 | #397 | 0.35 |
| 1974 | 458 | #424 | 0.31 |
| 1973 | 296 | #555 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 157 | #836 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 77 | #1,384 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,745 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,315 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakeisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakeisha has been given almost only to girls: 36 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lakeisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakeisha, and how old are they?
12,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,886 Americans ever recorded as Lakeisha. The median Lakeisha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 10,409 people named Lakeisha (10,399 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,484 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 5,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 712 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 75 |
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 Lakeisha born?
The states with the most babies named Lakeisha are Texas, Louisiana and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 987 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 848 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Georgia | 812 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 747 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 717 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 643 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 618 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 604 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 579 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 526 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Lakeisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakeisha is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1967 it was given 3.5 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 Lakeisha 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 45,312 babies since 1880, Lakeisha is the most given (28% 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 Lakeisha
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 Lakeisha and names like it
- Compare Lakeisha and LakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakeisha peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakeisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lakeisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lakeisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lakeisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.