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Lakecia vs Lakeshia

American parents have registered 4,710 Lakeshias since 1880, against 629 Lakecias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lakecia against Lakeshia, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lakecia Lakeshia

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 43 years in which either name was published, Lakeshia for 40 years and Lakecia for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lakecia Lakeshia
Total US births 6294,710
Most in one year 42315
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6004,500
Median age today 4542
Peak year 19821979
Best rank 2,327th girls578th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19651967
Girls / boys 629 / 04,710 / 0

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 Lakecias alive today are over 45; half the Lakeshias are over 42. That is 3 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: Lakecia and Lakeshia.