Laquan
#7,031 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laquan has been given to 2,695 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #7,031 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 202 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Laquan, 2025
1 in 276,000
Laquan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Laquan over time
In 2025, Laquan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Laquan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,031
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laquan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laquan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laquans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laquan was born before 1994 — so the typical Laquan is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,478
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (1,091).
Is Laquan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −366
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,813
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,195
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.43×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 5.9%
- Peak was 1991 (202)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.0% average annual change
Spellings of Laquan
Laquan is not the most common spelling — Jaquan is, with 16.3% against Laquan's 3.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Laquan is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Laquan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 86,111 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
- 2New York1 in 33,333
- 3Virginia1 in 33,333
- 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8Maryland1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Laquan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Laquan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Laquan was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Laquan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Laquan around the world
Where Laquan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2007#4,333in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Laquan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Laquan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Laquan
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laquan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Laquan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.