Lakendra
Feminine
Most names built with the La- prefix attach it to something old: a classical name, a saint's name, a word with centuries behind it. This one attaches it to Kendra, which was itself a recent American arrival with no ancestor of its own. It is a coinage built on a coinage, and that is rarer than it sounds.
How old is the name Lakendra?
Lakendra first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Lakendra alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 2,200 people named Lakendra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lakendra most popular?
Lakendra peaked in 1987, reaching #928 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Kendra to Lakendra
The story of Lakendra
Names of this kind are usually written with a capital letter in the middle. LaKendra, LaToya, DeShawn: the internal capital marks the seam, showing that the front is a prefix rather than part of the stem, and families use it deliberately. Official records almost never keep it. Birth registration systems, school databases and government forms flatten names to a single initial capital, and the seam disappears. So the version that reaches a chart or a page like this one is a smoothed-down copy of something that was more explicitly built. It is a small thing, but it is one of the ways a naming tradition can be recorded accurately and represented wrongly at the same time.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Neither element carries an inherited sense. The prefix means nothing by design. The name it attaches to appeared in American records without a traceable parent, so there is no older meaning waiting further back for anyone to recover.
How the name formed
- Kendra
- Lakendra
Pronouncing Lakendra
luh-KEN-druh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The prefix is unstressed and reduces almost to nothing, which is how prefixes of this kind always behave.
Nicknames for Lakendra
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
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 1987177 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #928reached in 1987
- Change vs 2016
- 0.0%5 in 2020, 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.
Lakendras among us
people named Lakendra 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
Lakendra 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
- Kendra sits inside it as a complete and independent short form.
- The stress pattern is comfortable and the name is easy to say at speed.
- The spelling follows the sound with no ambiguity anywhere.
- There is no inherited meaning to pass on, and any page offering one is guessing.
- It reads clearly as belonging to one American generation.
- Written without its internal capital, the construction it was built on is invisible.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lakendras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Lakendra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lakendra in 2025?
- Lakendra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lakendra with classmates?
- Lakendra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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