"Blend of La- and Kenya"
The name Lakenya is commonly a female name from the "American" origin.
Lakenya is a modern American formation that attaches the opening element La-, a pattern found in twentieth-century American coinages such as Latanya and Lakisha, to the name Kenya. Kenya came into American given-name use in the mid twentieth century from the name of the East African country. The combined form is first recorded in US birth records in 1969.
The pronunciation of Lakenya is luh-KEE-nyuh.
