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Lakisha

Girls' name

La- prefix combined with Kisha

Lakisha has been given to 12,322 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 1977, with 1,148 recorded.

Babies named Lakisha, 2016

1 in 612,000

Lakisha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lakisha: meaning, origin, and history

La- prefix combined with Kisha

coinages

What Lakisha means

Lakisha is a variant of Lakeisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lakisha is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lə.ˈkɪʃ.ə/ for Lakisha.

The naming story behind Lakisha

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

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

Origin, language, and formation

Lakisha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Lakisha is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kisha and Lakeisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,310 girls were recorded with the name Lakisha between 1967 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 1,148 in 1977; its best national rank was #214 in 1977.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Lakisha between 1975 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,151 in 1975.

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 Lakisha?

Lakisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakisha 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakisha was born before 1979 — so the typical Lakisha is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
52.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
12,310
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 52.1% of all recorded uses (6,412).

Is Lakisha 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (1,148)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#214
1977

Spellings of Lakisha

Lakisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 17.6% against Lakisha's 3.8%.

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 Lakisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Lakisha was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 1,887 girls, against 1 in 12,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

053 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 1,887
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,762
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 5,263
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 5,882
  5. 5Maryland1 in 6,250
  6. 6Alabama1 in 6,667
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 6,667
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 8,333

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

Lakisha around the world

Where Lakisha 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
    1996–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2007–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1995–2007
    #2,011
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1996–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Lakisha 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
#214
1977
Peak year
1977
1,148 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
12,310
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,151
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lakisha

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

LakeshaLakeishaLakieshaLakeeshaLakeyshaLakashaLakelynTanishaLakyshaLakrishaLakeashaLakreshaElishaLakenAlyshaLakelynnKenishaAleshaKeishaAyeshaLakshmiAleishaLakotaDanisha

Names with a curve like Lakisha

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

TamekaLashondaTeraTamikaMandiJasonMistiAmieKeishaLashandaChastityCatrina

Sibling names for Lakisha

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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