girls:
584 births since 1895
#5132 (10th percentile)
boys:
438 births since 1880
#4148 (9th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1880
#6717 (13th percentile)
The name Fayette is the #6,717 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,022 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 13.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,132 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 584 births since 1895. For boys, it ranks #4,148 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 438 births since 1880.
Fayette has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1895 for girls). Birth data for Fayette is available in 81 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (57 years for girls and 48 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fayette has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (57.1% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Fayette were girls. Interestingly, until around 1895, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1880 to 1894), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (61.0% girls from 1895 to 2022).
For girls, Fayette reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #705) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Fayette reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #532) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 74 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fayette".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Fayette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.1% confident that Fayette is pronounced as fay-EHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FAY-EHT, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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