Laquinta
Feminine · “The fifth”
Laquinta is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,209 girls against 27 boys since 1880.
Laquinta is a Spanish article and noun run together, and English reads it as a prefix and a name. La quinta means the fifth; it also means a country house, and the two senses are connected by an old arrangement in which a tenant paid the landlord a fifth of what the land produced.
How old is the name Laquinta?
Laquinta first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Laquinta alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,200 people named Laquinta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laquinta most popular?
Laquinta peaked in 1973, reaching #1329 nationally. See the whole 1973 chart.
Where it comes from
From quinta to Laquinta
The story of Laquinta
The word traveled with the language and turned up as a place name across the Spanish-speaking world, then as a hotel chain, then in American records as a given name. English speakers meeting it read the first two letters as the prefix that begins a great many American names and the rest as a name in its own right, which is a perfectly reasonable misreading: the shapes are identical and nothing on the page distinguishes a Spanish article from an English naming syllable. The record carries the name for children of both sexes, which is what happens to any name whose parts can be reanalysed, since a reader who cannot see where it divides has nothing to go on when guessing anything else about it either.
Meaning
The fifth
Spanish quinta is the feminine of the ordinal for fifth. Its use for a farmhouse or villa comes from the rent: a quinta was a property let on a fifth share of the crop, and the word for the fraction became the word for the building. Whether an American family meant any of that is another question, and usually not.
How the name formed
- quinta
- La Quinta
- Laquinta
Related forms: Quinta
Pronouncing Laquinta
luh-KEEN-tuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Spanish says lah-KEEN-tah with fuller vowels at each end; the qu is a plain k, as it always is in Spanish, and never a kw.
Nicknames for Laquinta
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 197376 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1329reached in 1973
- Change vs 1999
- +71.4%12 in 2000, from 7
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.
Laquinta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Quinta in Spanish — related form
Laquintas among us
people named Laquinta 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
Laquinta 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
- Quinn is waiting inside it as a short, current, unisex everyday name.
- It is read correctly at sight by any Spanish speaker.
- The rhythm is easy and every sound is available to an English speaker.
- The record carries this spelling for boys as well as girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- A hotel chain owns the phrase in American recognition, and that association is immediate.
- The meaning is a number and a rent arrangement, which takes some explaining.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laquintas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Laquinta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laquinta in 2025?
- Laquinta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laquinta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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