Lakesha
8,174 recorded births · active 1967–2008
Compare Lakesha →Living-age distribution
The median living Lakesha is 46. If you meet a Lakesha, there's about a 70% chance they're between 38 and 51 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Lakesha: 1978. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Lakesha is almost always given to female babies — 99.9% female.
Rarity
Lakesha ranks #3,158 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Lakeshas are 1.8x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Lakesha's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Lakesha's modeled peak was #616 in 1978 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Lakesha hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2008 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Lakesha isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Lakesha enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.