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Fayette

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Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Fayette has been given to 1,022 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% girls, 43% boys all-time.

Babies named Fayette, 2022

1 in 677,000

Fayette over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Fayette over time

In 2022, Fayette went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802022

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Fayette: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

place names and surname transfer

What Fayette means

Fayette is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fayette is used in English. Its origins include place names and surname transfer.

Fayette is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Fayette is pronounced /ˈfeɪ.ɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 584 girls were recorded with the name Fayette between 1895 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,482 in 1895.

In the United States, 438 boys were recorded with the name Fayette between 1880 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1923; its best national rank was #669 in 1882.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fayette?

Fayette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fayette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fayette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fayettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fayette was born before 1951 — so the typical Fayette is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.86%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
312
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1950s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Fayette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1955 (28)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,482
1895

Spellings of Fayette

Fayette is not the most common spelling — Janette is, with 41.9% against Fayette's 0.76%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fayette is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Fayette was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fayette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fayette around the world

Where Fayette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1945–1958
    #598
    in 1958

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fayette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,482
1895
Peak year
1955
28 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
584
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#669
1882
Peak year
1923
24 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
438
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fayette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fayette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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