Lacresha
Feminine
Lacresha resembles Lucretia and probably has nothing to do with it. The resemblance is close enough that it will be asserted as a derivation, and there is no record connecting them; the American name belongs to the twentieth-century tradition of building names out of a prefix and a pleasant ending.
How old is the name Lacresha?
Lacresha first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Lacresha alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 1,100 people named Lacresha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lacresha most popular?
Lacresha peaked in 1980, reaching #1704 nationally. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lacresha
The Roman name it resembles belongs to two women who were both handed reputations by other people. The first is the woman in Livy whose rape by a king's son and subsequent suicide are given as the cause of the revolution that ended the Roman monarchy, a story that is doing a great deal of political work and may be doing all of it. The second is Lucrezia Borgia, who was accused of poisoning, incest and murder by writers hostile to her family, and who in fact spent her adult life governing Ferrara competently, corresponding with poets and running the state while her husband was away. Neither woman got to write her own account. The American name resembles theirs and shares nothing else, which is worth stating so that the borrowed history is not attached to it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning. The front is one of the productive American prefixes and carries nothing; the rest resembles an old Roman name without being demonstrably from it. Assigning the whole to Lucretia would mean choosing on the strength of a resemblance, which is how most false etymologies start.
Pronouncing Lacresha
luh-KREE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first and last vowels are reduced to nothing, which is why the record also holds Lacrisha and Lakresha with no audible difference.
Nicknames for Lacresha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 198066 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1704reached in 1980
- Change vs 1997
- +28.6%9 in 1998, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lacreshas among us
people named Lacresha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lacresha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The rhythm is the settled American one and the name sounds established rather than experimental.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English and it is never mispronounced twice.
- Two short forms with nothing in common, one soft and one brisk.
- Several spellings of the same sound circulate, so spelling it out is permanent.
- The resemblance to a Roman name will produce confident wrong answers about the origin.
- It is closely dated to one American generation.
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- How many Lacreshas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Lacresha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lacresha in 2025?
- Lacresha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Lacresha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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