Laquita
Feminine
Laquita puts an American prefix on a Spanish diminutive. The -quita ending comes from Spanish names like Marquita and Chiquita, where -ita makes something small and dear and the q belongs to the syllable before it. Detached and reused, it gave American naming one of very few endings containing a q.
How old is the name Laquita?
Laquita first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Laquita alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 5,700 people named Laquita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laquita most popular?
Laquita peaked in 1983, reaching #683 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Laquita
Q is a scarce letter in English and scarcer inside a name, which makes any ending containing one immediately distinctive — and that scarcity is precisely why it was worth borrowing. Spanish supplied it: Marquita, Paquita and Chiquita all end that way, and American naming took the shape without the grammar. The result is a small group of names — Laquita, Raquita, Shaquita — that are recognizably built and recognizably unusual at the same time, which is what the system was for.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no word here to translate. The Spanish -ita is a real diminutive suffix with a real job, but a suffix detached from the words it modified carries no meaning, and the q comes along with it as part of the sound rather than as a letter doing anything. The La- prefix contributes nothing. So the name is a prefix and a borrowed ending, and the honest answer is that no meaning can be assigned.
Pronouncing Laquita
luh-KEE-tuh
luh-KEE-tuh, three syllables, stress in the middle, the qu said as a plain k in the Spanish way. A reader who applies the English qu produces luh-KWEE-tuh, which is not how the name is used.
Nicknames for Laquita
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
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 1983248 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #683reached in 1983
- Change vs 2005
- +20.0%6 in 2008, from 5
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.
Laquita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marquita in Spanish — related form
Laquitas among us
people named Laquita 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
Laquita 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
- The q makes the written name distinctive in a way very few American names manage.
- Quita works as a short form and keeps what is unusual about the name.
- Three syllables with a clear middle stress, which sits well against a short surname.
- English readers apply the English qu and produce a kw sound, which has to be corrected.
- There is no documented meaning, which is worth deciding how to talk about in advance.
- LaQuita and La Quita are both in use, so the capital letter is a standing question.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laquitas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,700 people named Laquita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laquita in 2025?
- Laquita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laquita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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