Lafayé
surname · Latin script
Lafayé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Lafaye.
- FRFrance≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lafaye in FR France, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from French Lafaye.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lafayé is found
(measured from records)Lafayé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 331 | Lafaye | 232 |
| US United States | 210 | 1 in 1.6M | 298 | Lafaye | 68 |
| CA Canada | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Lafaye | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Lafaye | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Lafaye | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | Lafaye | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lafayé mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Lafaye. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lafayé?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Lafayé in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lafaye. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lafayé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 210 people named Lafayé in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lafay%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lafayé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.