Laquana
Feminine
Laquana is an American build with a free prefix and a free ending, and nothing in the record explains it. The letters in the middle are shared with a pair of English words that look related and are not.
How old is the name Laquana?
Laquana first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Laquana alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 700 people named Laquana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laquana most popular?
Laquana peaked in 1979, reaching #2050 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Laquana
A quay is a stone landing place for ships, said key, spelled from French. A cay is a low sandy island in the Caribbean, also said key, borrowed from Spanish, which had taken it from an Arawakan language. The two words have nothing to do with each other and English has been confusing them for four hundred years, which is why the Florida Keys are spelled one way and said the other, and why older maps use all three spellings interchangeably. It is a good example of what English does when two borrowings arrive at the same sound: it keeps both, spells them inconsistently, and leaves the untangling to the dictionary.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been documented. The name belongs to a large family of American coinages of the same period, and nothing explains this particular arrangement.
Pronouncing Laquana
luh-KWAH-nuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The qu is said as a k and a w, which is the English value rather than the French one.
Nicknames for Laquana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 197949 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2050reached in 1979
- Change vs 2000
- −16.7%5 in 2001, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Laquanas among us
people named Laquana are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Laquana sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Quana and Ana are both available as short forms without any work.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects, so first attempts land correctly.
- Three open syllables carry well and are easy to hear across a room.
- Laquanna, Lakwana and Lequana are all in the record, so the spelling will be checked back with you.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for some listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laquanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Laquana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laquana in 2025?
- Laquana is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laquana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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