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Laquisha

Girls' name

Variant of Lakeisha

Laquisha has been given to 2,728 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Laquisha, 2011

1 in 732,000

Laquisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laquisha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lakeisha

coinages

What Laquisha means

Laquisha is a variant of Lakeisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laquisha is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lə.ˈkiː.ʃə/, /lə.ˈkwɪʃ.ə/ and /lə.ˈkɪʃ.ə/ for Laquisha.

Origin, language, and formation

Laquisha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Laquisha is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lakeisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,728 girls were recorded with the name Laquisha between 1969 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 176 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,038 in 1991.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Laquisha?

Laquisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laquisha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laquisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laquishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laquisha was born before 1987 — so the typical Laquisha is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,728
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (1,153).

Is Laquisha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (176)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,038
1991

Spellings of Laquisha

Laquisha is not the most common spelling — Latisha is, with 28.8% against Laquisha's 4.3%.

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 Laquisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Laquisha was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 67,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 50,000

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. Laquisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laquisha around the world

Where Laquisha 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 & Wales
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1998–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Laquisha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,038
1991
Peak year
1991
176 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
2,728
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laquisha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LaqueshaLaquashaLaqueishaLaquieshaLaquandaLaquintaAleishaDanishaLaquettaAlayshaKenishaLaquittaLaquaishaKalishaKeeshaDayshaTaishaTaneishaLatarshaJerushaKrishaPrishaLaquitaLaisha

Names with a curve like Laquisha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laquisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TieshaAlishiaShanekaNieshaMarkitaTonishaMaganTaneishaKasiShantelleMieshaLatia

Sibling names for Laquisha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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