Lakesha

Where Lakesha comes from

A variant of Lakeisha.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lakesha
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #4,982 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #329
    679 babies named Lakesha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #575.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
Namesakes

No widely known Lakesha turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.