Laqua
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Laqua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone living by water, from acqua ‘water’.
- DEGermany≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 860K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 415K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone living by water, from acqua ‘water’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laqua counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Laqua | 81 |
| US United States | — | 387 | 1 in 860K | 403 | Laqua | 149 |
| BR Brazil | — | 220 | 1 in 962K | 220 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Laqua | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 624K | — | Laqua | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Laqua | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Laqua | 1 |
| SH St. Helena | #683 | — | — | — | Laqua | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Laqua is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of laquer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Laquab. 1909DEGerman SS officer (1909-1969)
- Horst Laquab. 1943DEGerman ophthalmologist
- Benjamin Laquahistorian, political scientist
- Daniel LaquaGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 403 | #55,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 387 | #53,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 367 | #52,935 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 220 | #33,992 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laqua mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone living by water, from acqua ‘water’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Laqua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Laqua in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laqua.
- How common is the name Laqua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 387 people named Laqua in 2010, about 1 in 860 thousand residents.
- How common is Laqua compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Laqua is the 683rd most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laquaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laqua” — the 683rd most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.