Lakecia
Feminine
Lakecia is an American name of the sixties and seventies, three syllables with the stress in the middle. Its first letters spell lake, which in English is also the name of a deep red paint, and that word goes back to an insect.
How old is the name Lakecia?
Lakecia first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Lakecia alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 600 people named Lakecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lakecia most popular?
Lakecia peaked in 1977, reaching #2307 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lakecia
English has two words spelled lake. One is the water. The other is a deep red pigment — crimson lake, madder lake — and it comes, through French and Persian, from lac, the resin left by a tiny insect on trees in India, which also gives us shellac. Lakecia did not come from either; it came from La- and Kecia, the bright building blocks of its era. But it opens on a word that means both still water and a painter's crimson, and that is a good pair to carry.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Lakecia joins La- to Kecia, a name whose own source is not recorded; it is not documented as a form of the biblical Keziah.
Pronouncing Lakecia
luh-KEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Lakecia
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
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 198242 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2307reached in 1977
- Change vs 2001
- 0.0%5 in 2003, from 5
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.
Lakecias among us
people named Lakecia 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
Lakecia 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
- Easy to say once heard.
- Comes with Kecia as a ready short form.
- Rare, so a Lakecia is unlikely to share her name.
- Lakeisha, Lakesha and Lakisha are all likely guesses, so it will need spelling out.
- Some readers will say luh-KEE-see-uh; one correction settles it.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lakecias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lakecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lakecia in 2025?
- Lakecia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lakecia with classmates?
- Lakecia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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