Lakisha
Lakisha was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 12,322 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,800 Americans named Lakisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 43 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lakisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lakisha 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 Lakisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,388, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,148 babies in 1977, the peak
Lakisha peaked in 1977, when 1,148 girls were given it, #214 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #15,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,895 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,602 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,151 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,810 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,985 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,624 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,256 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,455 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 19 | #6,022 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,094 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,479 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,660 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,195 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,488 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,377 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,937 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,447 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 124 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 142 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 160 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 193 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 243 | #772 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 271 | #681 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 326 | #591 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 368 | #543 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 482 | #436 | 0.29 |
| 1983 | 560 | #393 | 0.34 |
| 1982 | 711 | #337 | 0.42 |
| 1981 | 803 | #301 | 0.48 |
| 1980 | 912 | #274 | 0.55 |
| 1979 | 1,042 | #244 | 0.65 |
| 1978 | 1,066 | #233 | 0.70 |
| 1977 | 1,148 | #214 | 0.75 |
| 1976 | 914 | #261 | 0.62 |
| 1975 | 838 | #288 | 0.57 |
| 1974 | 630 | #345 | 0.43 |
| 1973 | 375 | #479 | 0.26 |
| 1972 | 227 | #662 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,013 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,813 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,411 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakisha has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lakisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakisha, and how old are they?
11,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,322 Americans ever recorded as Lakisha. The median Lakisha alive today is 47 years old; half are between 43 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 9,110 people named Lakisha (9,094 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,918 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 | 6,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 267 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 Lakisha born?
The states with the most babies named Lakisha are New York, Texas and North Carolina, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 961 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 819 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 771 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 693 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 661 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 615 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 553 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 542 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 511 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 483 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Lakisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakisha is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1967 it was given 5.6 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 Lakisha 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, Lakisha is the second most given (29% 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 Lakisha
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 Lakisha and names like it
- Compare Lakisha and LakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Lakisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Lakisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lakisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.