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Laquan

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Laquan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 713th, in 1991.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
130.00% of boys
Peak year
1991202 births
Best rank
#713in 1991
Since 1972
2,683people given the name
Babies named Laquan, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,466 boys have been named Laquan in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 202 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 44%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 217 girls have also been given it, 8.1% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Laquan
1970s156
1980s410
1990s1,091
2000s437
2010s285
2020s87

In 1991, its biggest year

Laquan was the 713th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.

Names that rose and fell with Laquan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.