Lakeshia
Lakeshia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 576th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1979315 births
- Best rank
- #576in 1977
- Since 1967
- 4,710people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,710 girls have been named Lakeshia in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 315 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 315 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 48%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1979, its biggest year
Lakeshia was the 578th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Lakeshia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lakitapeak 1986
- Shawntapeak 1977
- Lakeishapeak 1979
- Natishapeak 1980
- Takeishapeak 1979
- Shauntapeak 1979
- Shawntepeak 1977
- Nakeishapeak 1978
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.