Lakeisha
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #5,615
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 812 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,850since 1967
Lakeisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Lakeisha has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,636 | 99 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,406 | 119 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,100 | 167 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,007 | 184 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,048 | 174 | — | |
| 1993 | #854 | 227 | — | |
| 1992 | #700 | 308 | — | |
| 1991 | #628 | 357 | — | |
| 1990 | #587 | 392 | — | |
| 1989 | #531 | 435 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #487 | 463 | — | |
| 1987 | #426 | 524 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #417 | 526 | — | |
| 1985 | #390 | 579 | — | |
| 1984 | #404 | 524 | — | |
| 1983 | #420 | 517 | — | |
| 1982 | #378 | 607 | — | |
| 1981 | #361 | 648 | — | |
| 1980 | #331 | 729 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #291 | 824 | — | |
| 1978 | #286 | 812 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #296 | 798 | — | |
| 1976 | #328 | 679 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #397 | 513 | — | |
| 1974 | #424 | 458 | — | |
| 1973 | #555 | 296 | — | |
| 1972 | #836 | 157 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,376 | 77 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,736 | 52 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lakeisha! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lakeisha is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#203 · 1 in 774
- Louisiana#215 · 1 in 1,209
- South Carolina#244 · 1 in 1,431
- North Carolina#260 · 1 in 1,635
- Tennessee#262 · 1 in 1,677
Best ever in a state: #72 in Mississippi, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #203 | 6 | 1 in 774 |
| Louisiana | #215 | 21 | 1 in 1,209 |
| South Carolina | #244 | 14 | 1 in 1,431 |
| North Carolina | #260 | 25 | 1 in 1,635 |
| Tennessee | #262 | 18 | 1 in 1,677 |
| Georgia | #291 | 22 | 1 in 1,939 |
| Alabama | #296 | 12 | 1 in 1,873 |
| Missouri | #350 | 13 | 1 in 2,527 |
| Mississippi | #352 | 7 | 1 in 1,968 |
| Virginia | #370 | 15 | 1 in 2,519 |
| Florida | #371 | 32 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Indiana | #375 | 13 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Maryland | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,837 |
| Pennsylvania | #434 | 21 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Kentucky | #437 | 6 | 1 in 3,540 |
| Illinois | #484 | 23 | 1 in 3,413 |
| Michigan | #497 | 16 | 1 in 3,905 |
| New Jersey | #549 | 11 | 1 in 4,361 |
| Ohio | #610 | 13 | 1 in 5,453 |
| New York | #775 | 19 | 1 in 6,424 |
| Texas | #899 | 18 | 1 in 7,644 |
| California | #1,364 | 18 | 1 in 14,580 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lakeisha
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 540 spots in 1972 (#1,376 → #836)
- Biggest drop: 194 spots in 1994 (#854 → #1,048)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1978 at #286 (812 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1972–1993
- Highest: 1 in 1,887 girls born in 1978 were named Lakeisha (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 180,021 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Lakeisha (5,552) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 27 | #3,774 (1969) | #5,242 |
| 1970s | 4,666 | #286 (1978) | #653 |
| 1980s | 5,552 | #331 (1980) | #415 |
| 1990s | 2,100 | #587 (1990) | #1,106 |
| 2000s | 381 | #2,374 (2000) | #4,245 |
| 2010s | 88 | #7,118 (2011) | #11,768 |
| 2020s | 36 | #10,271 (2024) | #12,446 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lakeisha in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 4,843 of them was named Lakeisha, which outranked 96.1% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).