Akaysha
Meaning of Akaysha
Akaysha is a feminine appellation of modern American coinage, emerging as a morphophonemic variant of the Arabic name Aisha (“she who lives”) via the African-American Anglicization Keisha, further modified by the augmentative prefix A-; its phonological profile—/əˈkeɪʃə/—features antepenultimate stress consistent with trisyllabic stress assignment in General American English. Analytically, civil records trace the name’s intermittent presence in U.S. birth data from 1988 onward, with annual occurrences oscillating between five and seventeen registrations—most notably six births in 1988 (rank 807) and ten in 2012 (rank 932)—thereby evidencing a sporadic yet persistent niche popularity. Such a distribution suggests an onomastic strategy by which parents calibrate cultural homage to ancestral roots against the desire for distinctive identity, positioning Akaysha within a technical taxonomy of given names that articulate both heritage and innovation.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as uh-KAY-shuh (/əˈkeɪʃə/)
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