Lafayette

French

"faith"

Lafayette Rank in US Top 1000

# 961 in the US

Lafayette Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 2309 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Lafayette

• 1449 Nameberry 2024

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Famous People Named Lafayette

• 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

The name 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")