How rare is the name Lakesha?

6,033 people in the United States have the first name Lakesha, about 1 in 50,063. It ranks #3,446 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

LAKESHA

#3,446

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,033
About
1 in 50,063
This common or more
82.4%
Who bears it

Of the 6,033 people named Lakesha, 92.4% reported their origin as Black, 2.8% as two or more races and 2.6% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lakesha peaked in 1978, when 679 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672008
Peak year
1978
Births that year
679
In 2008
7 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,174 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lakesha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #890. The largest share of babies named Lakesha, 55.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#10,40434
1970s#8903,893
1980s#1,0613,342
1990s#3,143787
2000s#14,616118
Generation X 1965–8055.2%
Millennials 1981–9642.3%
Generation Z 1997–122.5%

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

Where Lakesha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lakesha has been most common in Mississippi (3.9×), Alabama (3.1×), and South Carolina (2.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.36×).

7,134 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.

Exactly as common as Lakesha

1 other first name also has 6,033 people.

#3,446 Dereck · 6,033

Either side of Lakesha

#3,445 Jessika · 6,035#3,446 Dereck · 6,033#3,448 Calista · 6,028#3,449 Tre · 6,026

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,396 Lakeisha · 10,409#2,615 Lakisha · 9,110#4,907 Lakeshia · 3,639#9,752 Lakiesha · 1,406#12,307 Lakeesha · 1,015#13,493 Lakeysha · 893#15,541 Laquesha · 739#20,377 Lakecia · 508

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