Fayette
Fayette is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195528 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1895
- 1,022people given the name
The story in the numbers
584 girls have been named Fayette in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 28 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 28 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1950s alone account for 27%.
Fayette is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are boys (438), most of them born around 1923.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fayette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 49 | |
| 1920s | 67 | |
| 1930s | 47 | |
| 1940s | 98 | |
| 1950s | 160 | |
| 1960s | 99 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Fayette was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Fayette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurenepeak 1954
- Kathaleenpeak 1952
- Vandapeak 1960
- Lornapeak 1957
- Arnettepeak 1959
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Anitapeak 1957
- Eileenpeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.