Laquinta as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Laquinta

What is the meaning of the name Laquinta ?

The baby name Laquinta is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced lə-KWIN-tə.

Laquinta is African American, Latin, Spanish in Origin.

Laquinta is a modern given-name spelling of Spanish la quinta, the feminine article la joined to quinta, feminine of the ordinal quinto. The Spanish word continues Latin quīntus, quīnta, quīntum, the earliest recoverable form in this line, tied to quinque, five. Literally, the phrase signifies the fifth; Spanish quinta also developed the noun sense country estate, originally connected with rents paid as a fifth share.

As a U.S. forename, Laquinta is chiefly a late-twentieth-century creation rather than an old Spanish baptismal name. SSA birth data place its recorded American use from 1958, with a peak in 1973 and a heavier 1980s total; Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama are prominent in usage. Its association with African American naming is supported both by the La- prefix pattern described in onomastic studies of 1970s–1990s Black naming and by the 2020 Census first-name file, where 91.9% of bearers were Black or African American.