Lanisha
Lanisha was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,240 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Lanisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,955, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1983, the peak
Lanisha peaked in 1983, when 62 girls were given it, #1,739 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,955 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,092 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,361 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,905 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,092 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,913 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,157 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,305 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,647 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,419 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 12 | #9,016 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,811 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,264 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,091 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,346 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,335 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,392 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,451 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,264 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,128 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,220 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,787 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,800 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,465 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,272 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,317 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,311 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,688 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,208 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,270 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,006 | 30.3 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,739 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,345 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,468 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,677 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,232 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,370 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,747 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,632 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,341 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,946 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,798 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,633 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,973 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanisha, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,240 Americans ever recorded as Lanisha. The median Lanisha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 915 people named Lanisha (913 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 727 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 232 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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 Lanisha born?
The states with the most babies named Lanisha are California, New York and Texas, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 171 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lanisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lanisha is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.1 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 Lanisha 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,153 babies since 1880, Lanisha is the most given (39% 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 Lanisha
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 Lanisha and names like it
- Compare Lanisha and LaneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLanisha peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Lanisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lanisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.