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Lakesha

Girls' name

Variant of Lakeisha

Lakesha has been given to 8,174 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 1978, with 679 recorded.

Babies named Lakesha, 2008

1 in 562,000

Lakesha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lakesha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lakeisha

coinages

What Lakesha means

Lakesha is a variant of Lakeisha.

Origin, language, and formation

Lakesha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Lakesha is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lakeisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,168 girls were recorded with the name Lakesha between 1967 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 679 in 1978; its best national rank was #329 in 1978.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Lakesha between 1977 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1977; its best national rank was #5,529 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lakesha?

Lakesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 562,000
7 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
389,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakesha 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 2008 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 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakeshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakesha was born before 1980 — so the typical Lakesha is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (3,887).

Is Lakesha 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (679)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#329
1978

Spellings of Lakesha

Lakesha is not the most common spelling — Latasha is, with 17.6% against Lakesha's 4.8%.

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 Lakesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Lakesha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 18,676 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,882
  2. 2Alabama1 in 7,143
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 8,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 8,333
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 8,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 9,091
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 9,091
  8. 8Florida1 in 10,000

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. Lakesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lakesha around the world

Where Lakesha 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
    1996–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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

Lakesha 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
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Best rank ever
#329
1978
Peak year
1978
679 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
8,168
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,529
1977
Peak year
1977
6 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lakesha

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

LakishaLakeishaLakieshaLakeeshaLakeyshaLakashaLakelynLakyshaLakrishaLakeashaLakreshaLakenLakelynnKenishaAleshaTanishaAlyshaAyeshaLakshmiAleishaLakotaDanishaLakynLakaisha

Names with a curve like Lakesha

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

LashondaTeraTamekaToshaMandiLashandaJasonShalondaShantaSharondaTanikaMisti

Sibling names for Lakesha

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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