Why are people bashing this? It looks good, it sounds good, and I would name my child this! Also, it has the word lake, and I don’t know about y’all, but I like lakes.
Lakeisha Patterson, OAM, is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She won medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won Australia's first gold medal of the Games in a world record time swim in the Women's 400m freestyle S8. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9.
I thought I made the name up until I saw this, not gonna lie. Personally I prefer Keisha, but other than that this isn’t even that bad...
― Anonymous User 7/26/2020
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Hey guys, stop referring to African American names as "trashy" or "ghetto." These "opinions" are just thinly veiled racism. I don't see anyone using the terms "ghetto" or "unprofessional" on names that are used predominately by white people... wonder why that is?This is a beautiful name.
At one time I did not like my name (La Keesha). I asked my mom why she named me that. I think I hurt her a little because she really liked the name. I eventually started to embrace it. Life is what you make it. No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to. I can't allow others with or without my name to dictate who I am going to be. Classy or trashy or ghetto, we should stop judging books by their covers and learn to love one another.
― Anonymous User 6/1/2016
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I know it sounds ghetto, but I like my name. Why does everyone think it's trashy? It is just a name. My name is Lakeisha and I'm pretty successful now.
Despite the media’s negative connotations, the name LaKeisha has only positive denotations (e.g., happy, joyous, she who lives, she who is alive). For the record, my name is LaKeisha. However, many, including male WASPs, salute me as Dr. Jones. Thus, I am the epitome of my name AND my title. *We each have our own minds. Choose this day to think and know the truth for yourselves.
Am I practically the only person on this site that doesn't think names like Lakeisha are trashy? This name sounds lovely to me, but maybe it's because I know someone named Lakeisha who is a nice girl.
Names with prefixes like La and Le are so weird. They sound tacky, but it always gives the impression that the parents have rather pompous and megalomaniacal expectations or ideas about their kids, especially considering that they, well, are going to have a name that leads to low expectations. It's like saying, ''she's not merely Keisha, she is LA Keisha''.