Lafayette Family History
Lafayette Name Meaning
Southern French: diminutive of Lafaye, a topographic name
for someone living near a beech tree or beech wood, from Old French
fage, variant of fou ‘beech’ (Latin fagus).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lafayette Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lafayette families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lafayette Family Origin
Lafayette Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lafayette Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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