How rare is the name Lakisha?

9,110 people in the United States have the first name Lakisha, about 1 in 33,154. It ranks #2,615 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LAKISHA

#2,615

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,110
About
1 in 33,154
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 9,110 people named Lakisha, 91.3% reported their origin as Black, 3% 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.

Lakisha peaked in 1977, when 1,148 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672016
Peak year
1977
Births that year
1,148
In 2016
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,322 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lakisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #655. The largest share of babies named Lakisha, 59.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#10,11337
1970s#6556,424
1980s#8264,869
1990s#3,056818
2000s#12,016157
2010s#35,46317
Generation X 1965–8059.8%
Millennials 1981–9637.9%
Generation Z 1997–122.2%
2013 and later0%

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 Lakisha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lakisha has been most common in District of Columbia (7.1×), Mississippi (3×), and Louisiana (2.7×), and least common in Kansas (0.25×).

11,179 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 Lakisha

#2,613 Marietta · 9,123#2,614 Loraine · 9,120#2,616 Matthias · 9,103#2,617 Murray · 9,102

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,396 Lakeisha · 10,409#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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