Girl name#1,225 of girl names
Lakeisha
Pronounced L EY1 K IH0 Z HH AA1 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1979
- 58 years in use
How popular is Lakeisha?
Lakeisha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1967. It has been given to 12,884 children — the 1,225th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 61 births across the past decade, against a peak of 824 in a single year. That peak was in 1979.
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- L EY1 K IH0 Z HH AA1 · L EY1 K IH1 Z HH AA1
- Stress pattern:
- 101 · 111
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Lakeisha
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Lakeisha
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Lakeisha?
- Lakeisha ranks 1,225th among girls' names in US records, with 12,884 births since 1967. Over the past decade it accounts for 61.
- Is Lakeisha a unisex name?
- No. Lakeisha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Lakeisha most popular?
- 1979, when 824 children were given the name. It has been in use for 58 years and is still recorded as of 2024.