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Lakeia vs Lakeshia

American parents have registered 4,710 Lakeshias since 1880, against 520 Lakeias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lakeia 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 41 years in which either name was published, Lakeshia for 40 years and Lakeia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Lakeia Lakeshia
Total US births 5204,710
Most in one year 36315
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5004,500
Median age today 4142
Peak year 19841979
Best rank 2,574th girls578th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19741967
Girls / boys 520 / 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.

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