girls:
21 births since 1919
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1880
#1722 (62nd percentile)
overall:
4.9k births since 1880
#3910 (49th percentile)
The name Lafayette is the #3,910 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,866 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,722 (62.4% percentile) for all time with 4,845 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1919.
Lafayette has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1919 for girls).
The name Lafayette has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lafayette reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #469) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 227 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lafayette ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lafayette reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lafayette".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Lafayette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Lafayette is pronounced as lah-fay-EHT, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is la-fee-EHT, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AA0 F EY0 EH1 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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