Lafe
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1884 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 696since 1880
Lafe over time
Rank among boys' names. Lafe has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #2,148 | 15 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,862 | 7 |
| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,313 | 11 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #3,451 | 7 |
| 1926 | #2,566 | 11 |
| 1925 | #2,936 | 9 |
| 1924 | #2,473 | 12 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,630 | 11 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #2,511 | 11 |
| 1918 | #2,073 | 15 |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #1,771 | 17 |
| 1915 | #2,621 | 9 |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,002 | 7 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,130 | 5 |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,121 | 5 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,079 | 5 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #884 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | #604 | 10 |
| 1884 | #450 | 17 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | #781 | 6 |
| 1880 | #640 | 9 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Lafe was already there! It came in at #640, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1883, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Lafe
- 1,403 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 26 spots in 1887 (#845 → #819)
- Biggest drop: 241 spots in 1886 (#604 → #845)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1884 at #450 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1884–1887
- Highest: 1 in 6,732 boys born in 1884 were named Lafe (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 12.5% of all boys named Lafe (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 54 | #450 (1884) | #690 |
| 1890s | 16 | #884 (1890) | #1,028 |
| 1900s | 12 | #1,002 (1905) | #1,066 |
| 1910s | 76 | #1,771 (1916) | #2,567 |
| 1920s | 87 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,103 |
| 1930s | 57 | #2,313 (1932) | #3,062 |
| 1940s | 49 | #2,712 (1942) | #3,186 |
| 1950s | 53 | #2,558 (1955) | #3,350 |
| 1960s | 61 | #2,148 (1961) | #2,852 |
| 1970s | 68 | #3,018 (1979) | #4,432 |
| 1980s | 76 | #3,071 (1983) | #4,795 |
| 1990s | 22 | #7,271 (1991) | #7,898 |
| 2000s | 27 | #6,904 (2006) | #9,656 |
| 2010s | 27 | #10,766 (2010) | #11,603 |
| 2020s | 11 | #10,605 (2020) | #11,307 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lafe in 1884
Top boys' names in 1884
More about 1884
boys
114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 6,732 of them was named Lafe, which outranked 60.0% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).