Lakeyah — girls' name
13 babies named Lakeyah in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
62% of everyone ever named Lakeyah was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Lakeyah in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lakeyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 13 babies named Lakeyah between 1996 and 2023, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakeyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakeyah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 8 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Lakeyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lakeyah 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 13 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.
Lakeyah at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lakeyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1996
- Peak year (1996)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
13 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 8 births in a single year.
Lakeyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 8 births that decade — 62% of Lakeyah's all-time total
Lakeyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 8 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Lakeyah's strongest decade
8 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 62% of all-time use.
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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, 1996–2023 (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.