Recorded 1967–2009 · United States
Lakeshia was most popular in 1979, when 315 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,038 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,710 people named Lakeshia.
Lakeshia first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1967, which makes it about 58 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 41 of the 59 years since. It was last recorded in 2009.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,710 American births named Lakeshia between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,549 are estimated to be alive today.
Lakeshia was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Lakeshia is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 4,710 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,549 Americans named Lakeshia are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 43 years old, and half are between 38 and 48. That is a narrow band: Lakeshia arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org