Lakesha
Lakesha was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 8,174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,820 Americans named Lakesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 41 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lakesha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lakesha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.”
A variant of Lakeisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lakesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,672, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
679 babies in 1978, the peak
Lakesha peaked in 1978, when 679 girls were given it, #329 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,672 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,330 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,770 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,622 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,537 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,808 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,648 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,818 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,478 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,548 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 34 | #3,529 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,194 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,238 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,065 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,828 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,614 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,512 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,249 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 160 | #1,093 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 198 | #913 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 210 | #854 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 236 | #764 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 244 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 255 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 320 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 397 | #493 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 418 | #490 | 0.25 |
| 1981 | 479 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 585 | #391 | 0.35 |
| 1979 | 619 | #368 | 0.39 |
| 1978 | 679 | #329 | 0.44 |
| 1977 | 669 | #339 | 0.44 |
| 1976 | 588 | #356 | 0.40 |
| 1975 | 482 | #418 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 351 | #502 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 240 | #633 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 161 | #827 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 65 | #1,531 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,332 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,348 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,208 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakesha has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 42 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lakesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakesha, and how old are they?
7,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,174 Americans ever recorded as Lakesha. The median Lakesha alive today is 46 years old; half are between 41 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 6,033 people named Lakesha (6,023 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,915 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 4,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 205 |
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 Lakesha born?
The states with the most babies named Lakesha are Texas, Illinois and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 630 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 611 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 541 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 501 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 418 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Alabama | 409 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 388 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 354 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 353 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Michigan | 336 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Lakesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakesha is most over-represented in Mississippi: 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 Lakesha 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 42,981 babies since 1880, Lakesha is the third most given (19% 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 Lakesha
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 Lakesha and names like it
- Compare Lakesha and LakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakesha peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakesha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lakesha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Lakesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lakesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.