How Many People Are Named Lakeshia?

4,533

people named Lakeshia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 75,399 people in the US has this name

Based on 4,710 babies named Lakeshia in Social Security records from 1967 to 2009, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,945

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,225

See the top 100

Peak Year

1979

315 births

Trend

2009

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Combination of the popular prefix La with the name KESHIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lakeshia in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lakeshia alive today is about 42 years old, and 97% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 47 in 2025.

Under 30 150
3.3%
30 to 59 4,383
96.7%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lakeshia first appears in the records in 1967 and was given most often in 1979, to 315 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2009.

Babies given the name each year, 1967 to 2009

🏆 Rank History

Lakeshia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #576, in 1977.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#576 (1977)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#766 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lakeshia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lakeshia were born in Texas than in any other state: about 429 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lakeshia was given 8.3 times as often in Mississippi, 6.1 times in Alabama and 4.2 times in Georgia.

Texas 429
Georgia 379
Alabama 342
Mississippi 314
Florida 283
Louisiana 258
North Carolina 250
Illinois 235
South Carolina 192
Tennessee 159
California 157
Michigan 154
Virginia 129
New York 89
Arkansas 75
Maryland 69
Ohio 42
Missouri 34
Indiana 22
Kentucky 20
District of Columbia 19
New Jersey 18
Pennsylvania 16
Wisconsin 5

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