Lafaye
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lafɛj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lafaye 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 23K(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)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Lafaye.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lafaye 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 331 | Lafaye | 232 |
| US United States | 210 | 1 in 1.6M | 298 | Lafaye | 68 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Lafaye | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- François Lafaye-des-Rabiersb. 1752FRFrench politician
- Prosper Lafayeb. 1806FRFrench painter and stained-glass artist (1806-1883)
- Pierre-Benjamin Lafayeb. 1809FRFrench philosopher and linguist
- Georges Lafayeb. 1854FRFrench historian and latinist (1854-1927)
- Gabriel Lafayeb. 1888FRFrench politician (1888-1959)
- Jacques Lafayeb. 1930FRFrench historian (1930-2024)
- Yves Lafayeb. 1953FRFrench cinematographer
- Jean-Jacques Lafayeb. 1958FRFrench journalist
- Caroline Guibet Lafayeb. 1972FRFrench sociologist (*1972)
- Céline Lafayeb. 1981FRFrench athletics competitor (born 1981)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 547 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 468 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 466 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 461 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 427 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 421 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 404 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 402 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 332 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 331 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 283 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 210 | #88,336 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lafaye mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Lafaye. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Lafaye?
- A machine transcription gives /lafɛj/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lafaye have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Lafaye in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lafaye.
- How common is the name Lafaye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 210 people named Lafaye in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lafaye?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lafayeThe 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, “Lafaye”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.