Lafayette
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About Lafayette
The name Lafayette is currently ranked #961 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #326 in 1886. It is currently rising in popularity. Lafayette is occasionally used for girls in 1974.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
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Famous Lafayettes
- Lafayette Ronald "L. Ron" Hubbard
American author and founder of Scientology
- Marie
Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette , French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolution
- Lafayette Young
U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Lafayette Sabine Foster
U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Lafayette Curry Baker
American investigator and Civil War spy
- Lafayette Guild
U.S. Civil War surgeon and yellow fever pioneer
- Lafayette Lane
U.S. Congressman from Oregon
- LaFayette "Fayette" McMullen
U.S. Congressman from Virginia; 2nd governor of Washington Territory
- Lafayette Benedict Mendel
American biochemist
- Lafayette "Fat" Lever
American basketball player
- Lafayette H. "Reb" Russell
American NFL football player
Lafayette in pop culture
- Lafayette Reynolds
character on TV's "True Blood"
- Lafayette
hound dog in Disney's "The AristoCats"
- Lafayette Kettle
"Secretary of the Watertoast Institution, of presumptuous ignorance and unabashed vulgarity," in "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) by Charles Dickens
- Lafayette Joyner
grandfather to George Webber in Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again" (1941)
- Lafayette
Louisiana (pronounced "la,fee,ETT" , first syllable sounds like the word "laugh")
