Lakeitha
Feminine
Lakeitha is an American compound, and its second half is Scottish. That is worth saying at the start, because the origin usually claimed for names of this shape is a different continent entirely.
How old is the name Lakeitha?
Lakeitha first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Lakeitha alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 900 people named Lakeitha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lakeitha most popular?
Lakeitha peaked in 1979, reaching #1645 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lakeitha
There is a reliable way to date a name like this one, and it is not the prefix. The second half is always borrowed from whatever was current at the time — a name that was being given to children in the same decade, taken and reused as a building block. Keith was a surname that became an American man's name, was popular for a generation, and by the time it turned up as the back half of women's coinages it was already familiar enough to be a component rather than a name. So the compound can be placed in time by asking when its second half was at its most ordinary, which is usually about ten or fifteen years before the compound appears. The front tells you which family of names it belongs to; the back tells you when it was made.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front carries no meaning. The back is Keith, a Scottish surname and place name, given an ending to make it a woman's name — a common American move. No African language supplies this name, and the glosses that claim one name no word in any of them.
Pronouncing Lakeitha
luh-KEE-thuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The th is the soft one of thin, not the voiced one of this.
Nicknames for Lakeitha
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 197968 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1645reached in 1979
- Change vs 1998
- −53.8%6 in 2001, from 13
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.
Lakeithas among us
people named Lakeitha 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
Lakeitha 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 stress in the middle makes it carry well and resist being cut short.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so it is read right on sight.
- It shortens cleanly to a name that works on its own.
- Lakeisha, Laketha and Lakita are all nearby and hers will be written as one of them.
- The name dates its bearer to a particular American decade fairly precisely.
- The African meaning offered for it online is invented, and the real second half is Scottish.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lakeithas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Lakeitha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lakeitha in 2025?
- Lakeitha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lakeitha with classmates?
- Lakeitha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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