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Cosetta

#15,433 in 2025Girls' name

From French Cosette; literal meaning unconfirmed

Cosetta has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #15,433 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Cosetta, 2025

1 in 663,000

Cosetta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cosetta: meaning, origin, and history

From French Cosette; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cosetta means

Cosetta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cosetta is used in Italian.

Cosetta comes through French Cosette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Cosetta between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1956; its best national rank was #4,535 in 1956.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cosetta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,433
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cosetta 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cosetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cosettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cosetta was born before 1957 — so the typical Cosetta is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
36
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1950s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Cosetta 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 1956 (8)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,535
1956

Spellings of Cosetta

Cosetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 63.0% against Cosetta's 0.02%.

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.

Cosetta around the world

Where Cosetta 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.

  • France
    1925–1925
    #1,352
    in 1925
  • South Australia
    1952–1956
    #540
    in 1956

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cosetta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,433
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,535
1956
Peak year
1956
8 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Cosetta

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

CossetteLunettaMarittaJerettaCarettaSynettaJulittaMusettaSerettaManettaVelettaLuzettaOrlettaEurettaVilettaVenittaCosimaArzettaLolittaMosettaRomettaDinettaJulettaVaretta

Sibling names for Cosetta

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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