Entry № 5701 · American origin

Lakeisha Lakeisha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-KEE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
American
Meaning
"Joyful / alive (popular African American name of the 1970s-80s)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (American)

A name that means "joyful / alive (popular african american name of the 1970s-80s)".

The name and its variants (Lakisha, Lakesha, Latisha) became a notable subject of sociolinguistic and economic research — most famously the 2004 Bertrand-Mullainathan study "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?" published in the American Economic Review, which used the name to document hiring discrimination and became one of the most-cited papers in labor economics. Lakeisha remains a culturally significant name studied in courses on naming, identity, and the sociology of the African American experience.

Joyful / alive.

The name in its native script.

Lakeisha
Transliteration
Lakeisha
Pronunciation
/ ləˈkiː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lakeisha stands.

Lakeisha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lakeishas before her.

Real people
LaKisha Jones
American Idol finalist and Broadway performer.
born 1980
In fiction
Lakeisha
Various American culture.

Names connected to Lakeisha.

The number behind Lakeisha.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lakeisha reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.