Lakisha

Where Lakisha comes from

A variant of Lakeisha.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lakisha
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #6,042 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #214
    1,148 babies named Lakisha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #393.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
Namesakes

No widely known Lakisha 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.