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Lakeshia

Girls' name

La- prefix combined with Keshia

Lakeshia has been given to 4,710 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 315 recorded.

Babies named Lakeshia, 2009

1 in 637,000

Lakeshia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lakeshia: meaning, origin, and history

La- prefix combined with Keshia

coinages

What Lakeshia means

Lakeshia is a variant of Lakeisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lakeshia is used in African American.

The naming story behind Lakeshia

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

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

Origin, language, and formation

Lakeshia is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Lakeshia is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keshia and Lakeisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,710 girls were recorded with the name Lakeshia between 1967 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 315 in 1979; its best national rank was #576 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 Lakeshia?

Lakeshia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakeshia 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakeshia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakeshias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakeshia was born before 1983 — so the typical Lakeshia is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,710
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (2,239).

Is Lakeshia 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 1979 (315)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#576
1977

Spellings of Lakeshia

Lakeshia is not the most common spelling — Lakeisha is, with 19.2% against Lakeshia's 7.0%.

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 Lakeshia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lakeshia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 32,765 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 6,250
  2. 2Alabama1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 11,111
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 11,111
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 12,500
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 16,667
  7. 7Florida1 in 20,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 20,000

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

Lakeshia around the world

Where Lakeshia 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.

  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lakeshia 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
#576
1977
Peak year
1979
315 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
4,710
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lakeshia

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

LakishiaLakelynnLakethiaLakelynLakashiaLakeithiaLakechiaLakeishiaLakendraLakeyshiaDelphiaLakieshaLakeishaCinthiaLakshmiLakeeshaLakotaLakenLakeshaLakeyshaAlethiaSynthiaLakynLakeitha

Names with a curve like Lakeshia

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

TanikaShantaShastaShalondaShanitaCristinToshaSharondaLashandaLatoshaShamikaNatosha

Sibling names for Lakeshia

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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