Fayette
About 1,022 American babies have been named Fayette since 1880, most of them around 1955. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 370 Fayettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fayette boys named Fayette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,022
- Estimated living today
- 370
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1955
- Best rank
- 2,024th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 584 / 438
How old the living Fayettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,022 babies given the name since 1880, about 370 are alive — 36 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname, a place name
After Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Fayette is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1955
The most popular girls’ names the year Fayette peaked:
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Fayette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.