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Laconda
How to Pronounce Laconda
Pronounced luh-KON-duh /ləˈkɑːndə/Low
Meaning: Laconda joins the La- prefix, popular in mid-century African-American naming, with a resonant -conda ending. It was built for rhythm and distinctiveness rather than passed down from an older language, so no fixed meaning is recorded.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Laconda belongs to the African-American tradition of creating fresh names from admired sound-parts, here the widespread La- prefix and a strong -conda ending. It carries no documented older root, so it is best read as an original, melodic coinage of its time.
The name stayed rare and firmly mid-century, peaking around 1973 with roughly twenty girls a year before fading. A woman named Laconda from that peak is now in her early fifties, placing the name in the early 1970s.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Laconda mean?
It is a modern African-American coinage from the La- prefix and a -conda ending; it carries no older fixed meaning.
How do you pronounce Laconda?
It is said luh-KON-duh /ləˈkɑːndə/, three syllables with the stress in the middle.
Is Laconda a boy or girl name?
Laconda is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Laconda?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the early nineteen-seventies.