Laquinta
Laquinta was last recorded in 2000, when 12 babies were given it; 1,236 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Laquinta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 37 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laquinta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laquinta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,316, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1973, the peak
Laquinta peaked in 1973, when 76 girls were given it, #1,335 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 | #8,316 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,092 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,832 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,076 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,519 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,580 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,614 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,726 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,749 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,466 | 27.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 63 | #2,085 | 33.2 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,033 | 33.6 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,810 | 38.7 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,800 | 37.4 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,966 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,915 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,850 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,977 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,692 | 39.6 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,324 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,895 | 34.3 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,034 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,216 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,108 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,137 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,776 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,367 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,335 | 52.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,415 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,316 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,528 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,599 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,417 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,542 | 4.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,715 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laquinta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,236 Americans recorded as Laquinta, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laquinta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laquinta, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,236 Americans ever recorded as Laquinta. The median Laquinta alive today is 42 years old; half are between 37 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,070 people named Laquinta (1,022 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 764 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36 |
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 Laquinta born?
The states with the most babies named Laquinta are Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 172 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 110 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Tennessee | 49 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Mississippi | 47 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Alabama | 43 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 36 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Laquinta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laquinta is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1958 it was given 4.5 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 girls’ 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 Laquinta 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 1,638 babies since 1880, Laquinta is the most given (75% 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 Laquinta
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 Laquinta and names like it
- Compare Laquinta and LaquantaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLaquinta peaked in 1973.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laquinta since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Laquinta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laquinta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.