Holding steady.
Popularity of Laquandra since 1972
Babies named Laquandra per year in U.S. Social Security records.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 53 |
| 1980s | 218 |
| 1990s | 151 |
| 2000s | 10 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 |
Meaning & origin
Laquandra is a distinctly modern American name that first appeared on the U.S. naming landscape in 1972. Its peak year was 1990, reflecting the height of the trend for creative La-prefixed names. The name has since maintained a low but stable presence, not ranking among the top 1,000 names in its latest recorded year of 2025. Typical of its era, Laquandra showcases the inventiveness of late 20th-century naming conventions, where parents combined fashionable prefixes with melodic suffixes to create unique identities. Though less common today, it remains a recognizable example of a name style that produced many similar coinages.
Laquandra is a modern American coinage, part of a trend in the 1970s and 1980s of creating feminine names with the La- prefix (e.g., Latoya, LaKeisha) combined with invented or adapted elements. The second part may derive from names like Quandrea or Sandra, though no specific root is attested. The name first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 and peaked in popularity in 1990, reflecting the broader fashion for distinctive, prefixed names during that era.
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: La, Quandra, Andra
Sibling names for Laquandra
Names that share Laquandra's style, for a brother or sister.
