Name meaning & stats
Lafayette
Lafayette. 2,829 US babies since 1940, peak 1962.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1962
2,829 US babies were named Lafayette between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lafayette (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1962)