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Collette

#2,243 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Collette has been given to 7,672 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #2,243 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 189 recorded.

Babies named Collette, 2025

1 in 40,400

Collette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Collette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Collette means

Collette is a given name.

The naming story behind Collette

Wikidata records Collette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q41619174, 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, 7,672 girls were recorded with the name Collette between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 189 in 1966; its best national rank was #714 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,724 in 2020 to #2,243 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,530 in 2015 to #2,243 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 Collette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,400
82 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,243
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,024 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Collette 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Collette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Collettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Collette was born before 1970 — so the typical Collette is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,505
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Choose a decade

1960s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (1,539).

Is Collette 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
+455
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+481
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+287
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.4%
Peak was 1966 (189)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#714
1966

Spellings of Collette

Collette is not the most common spelling — Colette is, with 57.3% against Collette's 15.7%.

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 Collette is used

Across 2016–2025, Collette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 37,611 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 20,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 25,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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.

Collette around the world

Where Collette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2005
    #577
    in 2005
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–1997
    #358
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    1964–1996
    #471
    in 1996
  • France
    1900–1962
    #2,051
    in 1962
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,286
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1950–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Collette

People whose public names include Collette, 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.

Collette in other languages

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

ColettaColetteCollettaNicollette

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

Collette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,243
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 481
Best rank ever
#714
1966
Peak year
1966
189 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,672
Count in 2025
82

Names similar to Collette

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

ColetteCollinsLissetteBrigitteVioletteBrigetteColettaLynnetteArletteHarrietteJosetteLisetteColbieScarletteDanetteLizetteGeorgetteCharletteLinetteEllietteNannetteNanetteSuzetteNicolette

Names with a curve like Collette

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

GinnyMimiTwylaMelodieJuliannJoleenBettinaCharlaRoniAndraJolynnTana

Sibling names for Collette

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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