Lafayette

French

"faith"

Updated Mon Dec 23 2024

Lafayette Origin and Meaning

The name Lafayette is a boy's name of French origin meaning "faith".

Foppish name with a distinguished forebear, French general Marquis de Lafayette, who fought in the American Revolution. It accounts for the L in L. Ron Hubbard. Old-time short form: Fayette or Fate.

# 961 in the US

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Famous People Named Lafayette

Lafayette Ronald "L. Ron" Hubbard
American author and founder of Scientology
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Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette , French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolution
Lafayette Young
U.S. Senator from Iowa
Lafayette Sabine Foster
U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Lafayette Curry Baker
American investigator and Civil War spy
Lafayette Guild
U.S. Civil War surgeon and yellow fever pioneer
Lafayette Lane
U.S. Congressman from Oregon
LaFayette "Fayette" McMullen
U.S. Congressman from Virginia; 2nd governor of Washington Territory
Lafayette Benedict Mendel
American biochemist
Lafayette "Fat" Lever
American basketball player
Lafayette H. "Reb" Russell
American NFL football player

Lafayette in Pop Culture

Lafayette Reynolds
character on TV's "True Blood"
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hound dog in Disney's "The AristoCats"
Lafayette Kettle
"Secretary of the Watertoast Institution, of presumptuous ignorance and unabashed vulgarity," in "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) by Charles Dickens
Lafayette Joyner
grandfather to George Webber in Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again" (1941)
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Louisiana (pronounced "la,fee,ETT" , first syllable sounds like the word "laugh")