How rare is the name Laquita?

4,800 people in the United States have the first name Laquita, about 1 in 62,923. It ranks #4,037 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

LAQUITA

#4,037

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,800
About
1 in 62,923
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,800 people named Laquita, 76.2% reported their origin as Black, 19% as White and 2.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Laquita peaked in 1983, when 248 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19302008
Peak year
1983
Births that year
248
In 2008
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,400 babies have been given the name since 1930. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Laquita by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,379. The largest share of babies named Laquita, 44.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1930s#1,868484
1940s#2,903264
1950s#2,488468
1960s#2,453553
1970s#1,5801,438
1980s#1,3792,141
1990s#2,681990
2000s#21,36262
Silent Generation 1928–459.8%
Baby boom 1946–6414%
Generation X 1965–8029.9%
Millennials 1981–9644.3%
Generation Z 1997–122%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Laquita is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Laquita has been most common in Tennessee (5×), Mississippi (4.9×), and Oklahoma (4.6×), and least common in New York (0.16×).

4,606 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Laquita

1 other first name also has 4,800 people.

#4,037 Venkata · 4,800

Either side of Laquita

#4,035 Konnor · 4,804#4,036 Shon · 4,802#4,037 Venkata · 4,800#4,039 Shanta · 4,799

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Laquita, most common first.

#10,360 Lakita · 1,293#14,965 Laquetta · 777#19,505 Laquitta · 541#27,859 Laqueta · 326#32,621 Lakeita · 257#47,514 Laquida · 137

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