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Lafayette

French
"faith"
Clare Green
By Clare Green
Updated Mon Jul 14 2025

Lafayette Origin and Meaning

The name Lafayette is a boy's name of French origin meaning "faith".

Foppish name with a distinguished forebear, French general Marquis de Lafayette, who fought in the American Revolution. It accounts for the L in L. Ron Hubbard. Old-time short form: Fayette or Fate.

# 961 in the US

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# 3359 on Nameberry

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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")