Lekisha
Feminine
Lekisha is built from a front that carries no stress and a back that carries all of it, and that arrangement is the reason this whole family of names exists in the numbers it does.
How old is the name Lekisha?
Lekisha first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Lekisha alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 900 people named Lekisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lekisha most popular?
Lekisha peaked in 1980, reaching #1363 nationally. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lekisha
Listen to where the weight falls. The first syllable is almost silent — a small unstressed sound that could as easily be la, le, ta or da without changing the rhythm of the name at all. Everything audible is in the second and third. That is why these fronts are interchangeable and why the same back half turns up with half a dozen different openings: the unstressed syllable is free, because nobody is really listening to it. English does this everywhere. The unstressed vowels of ordinary words all collapse into the same colorless sound, which is why the second syllable of sofa and the first of about and the last of sister are identical in speech and spelled three different ways. A naming system built on that fact can produce an enormous number of names out of very few pieces, and it did.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language. The Hebrew reading sometimes offered belongs to a different name entirely and cannot be made to fit this one. What the name has is a documented shape and a documented decade, which is a real answer even though it is not a translation.
Pronouncing Lekisha
luh-KEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first syllable is barely voiced, which is why Lekisha and Lakisha sound nearly identical.
Nicknames for Lekisha
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 198092 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1363reached in 1980
- Change vs 1993
- −41.7%7 in 1994, from 12
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.
Lekishas among us
people named Lekisha 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
Lekisha 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 stressed middle makes it carry well across a room.
- It shortens cleanly to a name that stands on its own.
- Nothing in it is difficult to say or to read.
- Lakisha, Lakeisha and Lekeisha are all in the record, and hers will be written as one of them.
- The name dates its bearer to a particular American decade.
- There is no inherited meaning, and the readings offered online belong to other names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lekishas 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 Lekisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lekisha in 2025?
- Lekisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lekisha with classmates?
- Lekisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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