Lakisa — girls' name
263 babies named Lakisa in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
61% of everyone ever named Lakisa was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Lakisa in 1977 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lakisa
The Social Security Administration has registered 263 babies named Lakisa between 1970 and 1989, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakisa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1989. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakisa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Lakisa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lakisa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lakisa 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 263 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.
Lakisa at a glance
Last recorded 1989Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lakisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–1970
- Peak year (1977)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 20 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1989.
263 total births across 20 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1977 with 30 births in a single year.
Lakisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 160 births that decade — 61% of Lakisa's all-time total
Lakisa decade highlights
- Peak decade 160 births
- Runner-up 103 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Lakisa's strongest decade
160 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Lakisa by state
Where Lakisa concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 263 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1970–1989 (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.