Laquitta
Laquitta was last recorded in 1997, when 7 babies were given it; 707 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laquitta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laquitta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,505, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1979, the peak
Laquitta peaked in 1979, when 34 girls were given it, #2,646 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #11,505 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,729 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,176 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,669 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,399 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,166 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,539 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,672 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,522 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,064 | 18.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 26 | #3,474 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,166 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,289 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,190 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,103 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,302 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,492 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,834 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,646 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,570 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,980 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,759 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,250 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,373 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,865 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,010 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,039 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,626 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,291 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,934 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,561 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,071 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,066 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,402 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,138 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,695 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,861 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,759 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,068 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,967 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,461 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,217 | 3.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,670 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,070 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,757 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laquitta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laquitta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laquitta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laquitta, and how old are they?
An estimated 655 Americans named Laquitta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 541 people named Laquitta (540 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Laquitta?
Laquitta is a less common spelling of Laquita: SSA has recorded 707 Laquitta and 6,400 Laquita since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,564 babies since 1880, Laquitta is the third most given (8.3% 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 Laquitta
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 Laquitta and names like it
- Compare Laquitta and LaquitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLaquitta peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laquitta since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Laquitta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Laquitta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.