girls:
12.8k births since 1967
#1377 (76th percentile)
boys:
36 births since 1976
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
12.9k births since 1967
#2320 (70th percentile)
The name Lakeisha is the #2,320 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,876 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 70.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,377 (75.9% percentile) for all time with 12,840 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1976.
Lakeisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Lakeisha is available in 56 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023 (56 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lakeisha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lakeisha reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 64.6% percentile (ranked #268) with 494 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 494 births per million (ranked 64.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lakeisha ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lakeisha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lakeisha".
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