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Laquanda vs Laquetta

American parents have registered 1,539 Laquandas since 1880, against 1,031 Laquettas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laquanda against Laquetta, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laquanda Laquetta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Laquetta for 33 years and Laquanda for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Laquanda Laquetta
Total US births 1,5391,031
Most in one year 9144
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,500920
Median age today 4146
Peak year 19771987
Best rank 1,286th girls2,360th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671933
Girls / boys 1,539 / 01,031 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Laquettas alive today are over 46; half the Laquandas are over 41. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Laquanda and Laquetta.