Laquisha
Laquisha was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 2,728 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,640 Americans named Laquisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laquisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laquisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laquisha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
A rare variant of Lakeisha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laquisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,342, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
176 babies in 1991, the peak
Laquisha peaked in 1991, when 176 girls were given it, #1,038 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,342 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,245 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,255 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,406 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,621 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,514 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,031 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,152 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,530 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,086 | 39.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 63 | #2,164 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,928 | 40.9 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,470 | 60.5 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,368 | 66.9 |
| 1992 | 161 | #1,109 | 87.3 |
| 1991 | 176 | #1,038 | 93.9 |
| 1990 | 144 | #1,187 | 75.8 |
| 1989 | 139 | #1,178 | 75.4 |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,200 | 70.8 |
| 1987 | 129 | #1,147 | 74.2 |
| 1986 | 110 | #1,245 | 64.1 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,302 | 59.9 |
| 1984 | 131 | #1,069 | 77.8 |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,243 | 61.1 |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,286 | 58.5 |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,256 | 61.7 |
| 1980 | 111 | #1,195 | 66.9 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,253 | 63.5 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,662 | 41.8 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,365 | 54.1 |
| 1976 | 68 | #1,518 | 46.4 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,947 | 31.6 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,674 | 37.5 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,433 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,375 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,690 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,529 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,714 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laquisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laquisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laquisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laquisha, and how old are they?
2,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,728 Americans ever recorded as Laquisha. The median Laquisha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 34 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,113 people named Laquisha (2,103 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,663 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 584 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 221 |
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 Laquisha born?
The states with the most babies named Laquisha are Texas, Tennessee and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 313 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 173 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 166 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 152 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 127 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 94 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 73 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 63 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 63 | not ranked | 2.1× |
Where Laquisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laquisha is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1969 it was given 3.0 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 Laquisha 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,540 babies since 1880, Laquisha is the most given (60% 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 Laquisha
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 Laquisha and names like it
- Compare Laquisha and LaqueshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLaquisha peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laquisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Laquisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Laquisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laquisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.