Lafayette
Lafayette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 326th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192186 births
- Best rank
- #326in 1886
- Since 1880
- 4,854people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,854 boys have been named Lafayette in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 86 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 86 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lafayette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 210 | |
| 1890s | 145 | |
| 1900s | 128 | |
| 1910s | 457 | |
| 1920s | 576 | |
| 1930s | 527 | |
| 1940s | 479 | |
| 1950s | 499 | |
| 1960s | 466 | |
| 1970s | 401 | |
| 1980s | 342 | |
| 1990s | 289 | |
| 2000s | 140 | |
| 2010s | 137 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Lafayette was the 701st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Lafayette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Enospeak 1921
- Irapeak 1947
- Ernstpeak 1917
- Adolphuspeak 1922
- Jesspeak 1915
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Napoleonpeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.