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Lekesha vs Lekisha

American parents have registered 914 Lekishas since 1880, against 671 Lekeshas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lekesha against Lekisha, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lekesha Lekisha

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 25 years in which either name was published, Lekisha for 16 years and Lekesha for 9 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Lekesha Lekisha
Total US births 671914
Most in one year 6192
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 640880
Median age today 4645
Peak year 19791980
Best rank 1,770th girls1,363rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19711971
Girls / boys 671 / 0914 / 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.

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: Lekesha and Lekisha.