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Type Surname (from location)
Usage French
Pronounced Pron. LA-FITTE  [key]
Other Forms FormsFayet, Fayettes, Fayette, Lafayet, Delafayet, Lafayette, La Fauyet, La Fayets, La Fayettes, De La Fayettes, Des Fayettes

Meaning & History

French: topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary mark, Old French fitte (Late Latin fixta petra ‘fixed stone’, from the past participle of figere ‘to fix or fasten’), or habitational name from any of several places in western France named with this word
Added 7/3/2020 by Mazsie0901