Laquan
Laquan was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,031 among boys’ names; 2,695 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,600 Americans named Laquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laquan?
#7,031 among boys’ names, 2025
Laquan fell from #3,836 in 2015 to #7,031 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 7.0 per million.
213 babies in 1991, the peak
Laquan peaked in 1991, when 213 babies were given it (202 boys, #709 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,031 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,665 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,371 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,333 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,247 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,218 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,467 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,024 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,538 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,488 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,836 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,967 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,545 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,671 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,878 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,899 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,248 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,918 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,162 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,527 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,781 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,464 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,654 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,318 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,879 | 30.4 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,000 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 61 | #1,714 | 31.8 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,824 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 69 | #1,512 | 36.6 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,284 | 45.4 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,221 | 47.3 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,089 | 54.9 |
| 1993 | 141 | #904 | 71.9 |
| 1992 | 128 | #947 | 64.1 |
| 1991 | 202 | #709 | 100.0 |
| 1990 | 153 | #821 | 74.5 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,258 | 37.0 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,488 | 26.6 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,672 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,862 | 17.9 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,895 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,452 | 24.4 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,122 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 50 | #1,329 | 27.6 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,880 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,837 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,283 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,815 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,881 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,804 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,007 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,620 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,564 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,239 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,695 Americans recorded as Laquan, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laquan, and how old are they?
2,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,695 Americans ever recorded as Laquan. The median Laquan alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,803 people named Laquan (159 women and girls, 1,644 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 258 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 727 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 271 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Laquan born?
The states with the most babies named Laquan are New York, New Jersey and Virginia, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 338 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 282 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Virginia | 98 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 65 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 46 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Laquan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laquan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laquan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,861 babies since 1880, Laquan is the most given (94% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laquan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laquan and names like it
- Compare Laquan and LaquonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLaquan peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laquan since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Laquan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laquan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.