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Lakayla vs Lakesha

American parents have registered 8,174 Lakeshas since 1880, against 1,340 Lakaylas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lakayla against Lakesha, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lakayla Lakesha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Lakesha for 30 years and Lakayla for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lakayla Lakesha
Total US births 1,3408,174
Most in one year 78679
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,3007,800
Median age today 2145
Peak year 20031978
Best rank 2,203rd girls329th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19801967
Girls / boys 1,340 / 08,168 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lakeshas alive today are over 45; half the Lakaylas are over 21. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lakayla and Lakesha.