Lamesha

Where Lamesha comes from

African-American coinage.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lamesha
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #8,324 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #2,780
    29 babies named Lamesha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,563.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of late 20th and early 21st century African-American usage.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.