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Laquetta vs Laquitta

American parents have registered 1,031 Laquettas since 1880, against 707 Laquittas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laquetta against Laquitta, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laquetta Laquitta

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 62 years in which either name was published, Laquetta for 53 years and Laquitta for 9 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Laquetta Laquitta
Total US births 1,031707
Most in one year 4434
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 920660
Median age today 4644
Peak year 19871979
Best rank 2,360th girls2,621st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19331932
Girls / boys 1,031 / 0707 / 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 Laquittas are over 44. That is 2 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 Laquitta.