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Yolette

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Yolette has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Yolette, 2010

1 in 528,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yolette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yolette means

Yolette is a given name.

The naming story behind Yolette

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Yolette in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 206.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Fr. Lat. violet”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Yolette, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 girls were recorded with the name Yolette between 1953 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,588 in 1953.

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 Yolette?

Yolette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 528,000
7 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 254,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
365,976 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yolette 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 2010 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 365,976 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yolette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yolettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yolette was born before 1968 — so the typical Yolette is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Yolette 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
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (14)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,588
1953

Spellings of Yolette

Yolette is not the most common spelling — Yvette is, with 43.9% against Yolette's 0.08%.

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 Yolette is used

Across 1910–2025, Yolette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Yolette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yolette around the world

Where Yolette 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
    1945–1973
    #2,694
    in 1973
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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.

Yolette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,588
1953
Peak year
2005
14 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yolette

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

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Sibling names for Yolette

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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