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Lakeisha

Girls' name

La- prefix combined with Keisha

Lakeisha has been given to 12,886 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 824 recorded.

Babies named Lakeisha, 2024

1 in 371,000

Lakeisha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lakeisha: meaning, origin, and history

La- prefix combined with Keisha

coinages

What Lakeisha means

Lakeisha is a modern given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lakeisha is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lə.ˈkiː.ʃə/ for Lakeisha.

The naming story behind Lakeisha

The reference describes Lakeisha as a formation made by attaching the naming prefix la to Keisha. The documented base is Keisha, rather than a name chosen only because its spelling looks similar.

This formation records how the source explains Lakeisha. The linked entry for Keisha supplies the separate history of that earlier name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

An African-American creation from the 1970s, possibly La- + Keisha.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lakeisha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lakeisha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Lakeisha is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,850 girls were recorded with the name Lakeisha between 1967 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 824 in 1979; its best national rank was #286 in 1978.

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Lakeisha between 1976 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1978; its best national rank was #4,028 in 1978.

How common is Lakeisha?

Lakeisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakeisha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakeisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakeishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakeisha was born before 1982 — so the typical Lakeisha is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
12,850
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (5,552).

Is Lakeisha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (824)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#286
1978

Spellings of Lakeisha

Lakeisha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 18.3% against Lakeisha's 10.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lakeisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Lakeisha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 12,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in —).

032 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 3,125
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,448
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 4,167
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 5,263
  5. 5Georgia1 in 5,556
  6. 6Maryland1 in 5,556
  7. 7Alabama1 in 6,667
  8. 8Virginia1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lakeisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lakeisha around the world

Where Lakeisha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #597
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lakeisha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#286
1978
Peak year
1979
824 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
12,850
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,028
1978
Peak year
1978
9 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lakeisha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LakishaLakeshaLakieshaLakeeshaLakeyshaLakrishaLakeashaLakreshaLakelynnLakashaLakelynLakaishaLakeshiaTanishaLakyshaElishaLakenLakendraAlyshaKenishaAleshaKeishaAyeshaLakshmi

Names with a curve like Lakeisha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lakeisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrandieMandiLatriceTeraTerraTamekaLashondaToshaTanishaChrystalKristalChristopher

Sibling names for Lakeisha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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