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Laketia
How to Pronounce Laketia
Pronounced luh-KEE-shuh /ləˈkiː.ʃə/Low
Meaning: Laketia joins the productive La- prefix to a Ketia core, placing it beside Lakeisha, Laketa, and Lakisha. Names of this shape were built for their rhythm rather than an inherited root, and Laketia's exact assembly is uncertain, though it clearly belongs to the La- family that flourished from the nineteen-sixties onward.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Laketia is a modern American coinage setting the La- prefix over a Ketia core, in the family of Lakeisha and Laketa. It spread through African-American communities in the later twentieth century, prized for its sound, and its precise build is uncertain, which we note.
It was never common, given to only about fifteen girls a year even at its peak around 1976, and it faded by the late nineteen-eighties. A girl named Laketia then is in her forties today.
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What does the name Laketia mean?
It is an invented American name joining the La- prefix to a Ketia core, in the family of Lakeisha; the exact build is uncertain.
How do you pronounce Laketia?
It is said luh-KEE-shuh /ləˈkiː.ʃə/ - three syllables, stress on the second.
Is Laketia a boy or girl name?
Laketia is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Laketia?
It was always rare in the United States, given to only about fifteen girls a year even at its peak in the nineteen-seventies.