Lakesha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləkiʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakesha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 95K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakesha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Lakesha | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Lakesha | 2 |
| US United States | — | 6,033 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Lakesha | 315 |
| GH Ghana | #934 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Lakesha | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 95K | listed | Lakesha | 32 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Lakesha | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,446 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 679 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 669 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 619 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 588 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 585 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 482 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 479 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 418 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 397 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 351 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 320 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lakesha mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lakesha?
- In the etymology graph, Lakisha, Lakeisha and Lakeshia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lakesha?
- A machine transcription gives /ləkiʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lakesha a male or female name?
- Lakesha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lakesha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Lakesha in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lakesha.
- How common is the name Lakesha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,033 people named Lakesha in 2020, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Lakesha compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Lakesha is the 934th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lakesha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakeshaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lakesha” — the 934th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.