Given name & surname · also place names
Fayette
Fayette is a masculine given name from French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fayette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,022
- 438 boys · 584 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 28 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 499 as a first name in 2020; 649 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Fayette
- Fayette Pinkneysinger, psychologist, vocal coach (1948–2009)
- Fayette McMullenAmerican politician (1805-1880)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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