Lakiesha
Lakiesha was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 1,897 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Lakiesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 39 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakiesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakiesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,569, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1979, the peak
Lakiesha peaked in 1979, when 128 girls were given it, #1,077 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,569 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,772 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,540 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,609 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,550 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,423 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,950 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,348 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,668 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,818 | 12.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 25 | #4,158 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,954 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,932 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,373 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,491 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,136 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,177 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,712 | 42.1 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,005 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,593 | 43.7 |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,623 | 42.4 |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,454 | 47.5 |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,223 | 62.3 |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,314 | 56.7 |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,332 | 56.4 |
| 1980 | 113 | #1,186 | 68.1 |
| 1979 | 128 | #1,077 | 79.7 |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,092 | 78.3 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,115 | 75.0 |
| 1976 | 104 | #1,136 | 71.0 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,194 | 66.5 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,293 | 56.6 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,597 | 39.8 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,424 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,721 | 10.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakiesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakiesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakiesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakiesha, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,897 Americans ever recorded as Lakiesha. The median Lakiesha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 39 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,406 people named Lakiesha (1,403 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,841 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 | 819 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 924 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 78 |
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 Lakiesha born?
The states with the most babies named Lakiesha are Texas, New York and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 124 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 96 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 74 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 60 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 55 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Lakiesha 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, Lakiesha is the fifth most given (4.4% 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 Lakiesha
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 Lakiesha and names like it
- Compare Lakiesha and LakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakiesha peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakiesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lakiesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lakiesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.