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Coletta

#13,566 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Coletta has been given to 2,384 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #13,566 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Coletta, 2025

1 in 553,000

Coletta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coletta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Coletta means

Coletta is a given name.

The naming story behind Coletta

Wikidata records Coletta as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q21143289, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,384 girls were recorded with the name Coletta between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1924; its best national rank was #776 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,713 in 2020 to #13,566 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Coletta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,566
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coletta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coletta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Colettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coletta was born before 1934 — so the typical Coletta is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
756
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (480).

Is Coletta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,853
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
9.7%
Peak was 1924 (62)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#776
1902

Spellings of Coletta

Coletta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 57.3% against Coletta's 0.77%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Coletta is used

Across 1910–2025, Coletta was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 73,897 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 14,286
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in —
  7. 7Minnesota1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Coletta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Coletta

People whose public names include Coletta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Coletta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Coletta. Linked forms have their own page here.

ColetaColetteCollettaColletteNicoletta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Coletta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,853
Best rank ever
#776
1902
Peak year
1924
62 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,384
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Coletta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CollettaCollynsColbieArlettaCollinsLouettaColletteCollierColbyColleneLovettaJuliettaCollinViolettaColeneJoettaBrittaColetteCorettaRenattaLarettaGrettaAnnettaArietta

Names with a curve like Coletta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Coletta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LaurineGregoriaTinyZitaFelipaAlmetaLaveraMargareteVetaEarlLouisAlbert

Sibling names for Coletta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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