How rare is the name Lakeisha?

10,409 people in the United States have the first name Lakeisha, about 1 in 29,016. It ranks #2,396 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LAKEISHA

#2,396

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,409
About
1 in 29,016
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,409 people named Lakeisha, 90.8% reported their origin as Black, 3.4% as two or more races and 3.1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lakeisha peaked in 1979, when 824 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672024
Peak year
1979
Births that year
824
In 2024
9 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,886 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lakeisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #752. The largest share of babies named Lakeisha, 51.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#11,21927
1970s#8044,682
1980s#7525,572
1990s#1,6472,100
2000s#6,452381
2010s#18,15488
2020s#21,35636
Generation X 1965–8042.3%
Millennials 1981–9651.6%
Generation Z 1997–125.6%
2013 and later0.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lakeisha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lakeisha has been most common in District of Columbia (4.3×), Louisiana (4.1×), and Mississippi (3.4×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.17×).

11,443 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Lakeisha

#2,394 Atticus · 10,453#2,395 Lesa · 10,440#2,397 Russel · 10,399#2,398 Kiran · 10,388

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lakeisha, most common first.

#2,615 Lakisha · 9,110#3,446 Lakesha · 6,033#4,907 Lakeshia · 3,639#7,275 Laquisha · 2,113#9,752 Lakiesha · 1,406#12,307 Lakeesha · 1,015#13,493 Lakeysha · 893#24,812 Lakesia · 386

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