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Lakeesha

About 1,370 American babies have been named Lakeesha since 1970, most of them around 1977. It has not appeared in the national data since 2001. About 1,300 Lakeeshas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lakeesha

By the numbers

Total US births
1,370
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
46
Peak year
1977
Best rank
1,108th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1970

How old the living Lakeeshas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,370 babies given the name since 1970, about 1,300 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Lakeesha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lakeesha is most concentrated in Illinois (3.8×), Tennessee (3.0×), Alabama (2.5×), New York (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1977

The most popular girls’ names the year Lakeesha peaked:

All the names of 1977

Related names

Lakeesha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.