Laquitta
Feminine
Laquitta looks like it ought to be Spanish and is not: the ending resembles a Spanish diminutive but the combination does not exist in Spanish, and the front is an American prefix. The syllable in the middle does open an English legal term that says something useful about what a promise is worth.
How old is the name Laquitta?
Laquitta first appears in US birth records in 1932 — 93 years ago. The typical Laquitta alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 700 people named Laquitta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laquitta most popular?
Laquitta peaked in 1979, reaching #2621 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Laquitta
A quitclaim deed is one of the more honest documents in law. An ordinary deed warrants that the seller owns the property and will defend the buyer's title against anyone who turns up claiming otherwise. A quitclaim warrants nothing at all: it transfers whatever interest the person signing happens to have, which may be complete ownership and may be absolutely nothing, and makes no promise either way. It is used between family members, in divorces, to clear up a defect in a chain of title, and by people who would rather not be asked questions. The name comes from the medieval act of quitting a claim — giving up whatever right you might have had — and the word quit in it is the same one behind quiet and acquit, from a Latin root about being left in peace. Signing one does not mean you owned anything. It means you have stopped saying you did.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. The prefix is a free American element with no content, and the rest resembles a Spanish diminutive without being one — Spanish would not produce this shape. The doubled t is an English spelling habit rather than a Spanish one, which is the clearest sign the name was built here.
Pronouncing Laquitta
luh-KWIT-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The qu is said as kw, as it is in every English word that has it, and not as the k that Spanish would use.
Nicknames for Laquitta
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
- 1932
- Most girls named
- 197934 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2621reached in 1979
- Change vs 1996
- +16.7%7 in 1997, 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.
Laquittas among us
people named Laquitta 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
Laquitta 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
- Middle stress on three syllables is the easiest rhythm English offers.
- The spelling is phonetic by English rules and can be written from hearing.
- It is genuinely distinctive without being hard to say.
- Laquita, Lakita and Laquetta are all recorded and will be written for it.
- Spanish speakers will read it as an attempted Spanish word that is not one.
- Neither element carries a meaning, so the origin question has a short answer.
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- How many Laquittas 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 Laquitta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Laquitta in 2025?
- Laquitta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laquitta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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