Fayette — unisex name

What the Data Says About Fayette

The Social Security Administration has registered 584 babies named Fayette between 1895 and 2022, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fayette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Fayette is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 438 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fayette performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Fayette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fayette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 584 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.