Lakisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lakisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,310 babies named Lakisha between 1967 and 2016, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 1,148 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakisha performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 6,412 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lakisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 961 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Lakisha in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lakisha 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 12,310 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.