Lafayette
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Lafayette
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.
Lafayette is also given to girls.
Pronounced laf-ee-ET.
As of October 2026, Lafayette ranked #10262 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #326 in 1886.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Lafayette on lists
Famous Lafayettes
- Lafayette Ronald "L. Ron" HubbardBoy
American author and founder of Scientology
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Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette , French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolution
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U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Lafayette Sabine FosterBoy
U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Lafayette Curry BakerBoy
American investigator and Civil War spy
- Lafayette GuildBoy
U.S. Civil War surgeon and yellow fever pioneer
- Lafayette LaneBoy
U.S. Congressman from Oregon
- LaFayette "Fayette" McMullenBoy
U.S. Congressman from Virginia; 2nd governor of Washington Territory
- Lafayette Benedict MendelBoy
American biochemist
- Lafayette "Fat" LeverBoy
American basketball player
- Lafayette H. "Reb" RussellBoy
American NFL football player
Lafayette in pop culture
- Lafayette ReynoldsBoy
character on TV's "True Blood"
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hound dog in Disney's "The AristoCats"
- Lafayette KettleBoy
"Secretary of the Watertoast Institution, of presumptuous ignorance and unabashed vulgarity," in "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) by Charles Dickens
- Lafayette JoynerBoy
grandfather to George Webber in Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again" (1941)
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Louisiana (pronounced "la,fee,ETT" , first syllable sounds like the word "laugh")