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Laketta
How to Pronounce Laketta
Pronounced luh-KET-uh /ləˈkɛt.ə/Low
Meaning: Laketta is a modern coinage that joins the popular La- prefix to a -ketta ending echoing names like Loretta and Nicoletta. Its meaning rests in its rhythm and its fashionable prefix rather than a single fixed root.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
Laketta is a modern American coinage, formed with the fashionable La- prefix and a -ketta ending in the style of Loretta or Nicoletta. It belongs to a rich late twentieth-century tradition of rhythmic La- names given especially in African American families, prized for their music rather than a literal meaning.
Laketta was always rare, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the mid nineteen-seventies. A girl named Laketta then is in her late forties today.
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What does the name Laketta mean?
It is a modern name joining the La- prefix to a -ketta ending, prized for its rhythm.
How do you pronounce Laketta?
It is said luh-KET-uh /ləˈkɛt.ə/, three syllables with the stress on the second.
Is Laketta a boy or girl name?
Laketta is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Laketta?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the mid nineteen-seventies.