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Laquita vs Laquitta

American parents have registered 6,400 Laquitas since 1880, against 707 Laquittas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laquita against Laquitta, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laquita 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

Laquita has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1930 to 2008. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1966, when Laquita had 26 and Laquitta had 8.

Side by side

  Laquita Laquitta
Total US births 6,400707
Most in one year 24834
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5,600660
Median age today 4444
Peak year 19831979
Best rank 683rd girls2,621st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19301932
Girls / boys 6,400 / 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.

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: Laquita and Laquitta.