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Laquetta vs Laquinta

American parents have registered 1,236 Laquintas since 1880, against 1,031 Laquettas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laquetta against Laquinta, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laquetta Laquinta

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 63 years in which either name was published, Laquetta for 35 years and Laquinta for 28 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Laquetta Laquinta
Total US births 1,0311,236
Most in one year 4476
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9201,200
Median age today 4641
Peak year 19871973
Best rank 2,360th girls1,329th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19331958
Girls / boys 1,031 / 01,209 / 27

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 Laquintas 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: Laquetta and Laquinta.