Lakysha
Lakysha was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 162 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakysha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,464, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1978, the peak
Lakysha peaked in 1978, when 14 girls were given it, #4,808 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,464 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,174 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,386 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,885 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,949 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,774 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,534 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,371 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,583 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,783 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 11 | #5,950 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,808 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,102 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,323 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,753 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,276 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,701 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,698 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,859 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakysha, and how old are they?
An estimated 154 Americans named Lakysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 43 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 154 people named Lakysha (150 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Lakysha?
Lakysha is a less common spelling of Lakisha: SSA has recorded 162 Lakysha and 12,322 Lakisha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,746 babies since 1880, Lakysha is the eighth most given (<1% 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 Lakysha
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 Lakysha and names like it
- Compare Lakysha and LakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakysha peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Lakysha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lakysha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.