Laquinda
Laquinda was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laquinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laquinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,677, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1982, the peak
Laquinda peaked in 1982, when 18 girls were given it, #4,253 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,677 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,703 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,839 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,761 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,064 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,323 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,067 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,522 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,382 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,459 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 18 | #4,253 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,095 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,125 | 6.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,082 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,380 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laquinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laquinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laquinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laquinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Laquinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 38 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 150 people named Laquinda (150 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,807 babies since 1880, Laquinda is the second most given (8.0% 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 Laquinda
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 Laquinda and names like it
- Compare Laquinda and LaquandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLaquinda peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Laquinda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laquinda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.