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Laquita

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Laquita has been given to 6,400 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1983, with 248 recorded.

Babies named Laquita, 2008

1 in 655,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laquita: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Laquita means

Laquita is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Laquita is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Laquita is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,400 girls were recorded with the name Laquita between 1930 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 248 in 1983; its best national rank was #684 in 1983.

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 Laquita?

Laquita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laquita 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 2008 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 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laquita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laquitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laquita was born before 1979 — so the typical Laquita is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,652
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1980s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (2,141).

Is Laquita 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (248)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#684
1983

Spellings of Laquita

Laquita is not the most common spelling — Marquita is, with 29.0% against Laquita's 16.8%.

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 Laquita is used

Across 1910–2025, Laquita was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 24,386 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 7,143
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 7,143
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 7,143
  4. 4Alabama1 in 8,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 14,286
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 16,667

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

Laquita around the world

Where Laquita 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
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

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.

Laquita 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
#684
1983
Peak year
1983
248 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
6,400
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laquita

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

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Names with a curve like Laquita

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

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Sibling names for Laquita

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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