Lafe

Where Lafe comes from

The dictionaries list Lafe as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Lafayette — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #450
    17 babies named Lafe — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #845.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Lafayette.
Namesakes

No widely known Lafe turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.