girls:
6.4k births since 1930
#2070 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1930
#3388 (56th percentile)
The name Laquita is the #3,388 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,399 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 56.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,070 (63.8% percentile) for all time with 6,399 births since 1930.
Laquita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (first recorded for girls in 1930). Birth data for Laquita is available in 77 out of the 79 years between 1930 and 2008. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Laquita reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 30.7% percentile (ranked #537) with 139 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 139 births per million (ranked 30.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laquita".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Laquita. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Laquita is pronounced as luh-KEE-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luhk-WEE-tuh, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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