Colette Girl
How popular is Colette?
#316 girl name in 2025
962 baby girls were named Colette in the US in 2025, making it the 316th most popular girl name.
Colette popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #316 for girls (▲ 85 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 962 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+61% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #525 in 2015, #531 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (962 girls) |
| Highest rank | #316 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1892 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Colette counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Colette family of names ranked #310 for girls in 2025 (#368 the year before), with 1,062 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Colette | 962 | 91% |
| Collette | 82 | 8% |
| Kolette | 18 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Colette is most popular
Babies named Colette per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 1.5 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Vermont: 1.2 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Colorado: 1.2 per 1,000 (129 girls)
- Minnesota: 1.1 per 1,000 (121 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.0 per 1,000 (57 girls)
Colette by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 38 | #1,091 |
| 1900s | 76 | #1,004 |
| 1910s | 250 | #1,071 |
| 1920s | 461 | #886 |
| 1930s | 747 | #693 |
| 1940s | 1,204 | #597 |
| 1950s | 3,670 | #419 |
| 1960s | 4,764 | #372 |
| 1970s | 2,494 | #501 |
| 1980s | 1,790 | #709 |
| 1990s | 1,426 | #1,071 |
| 2000s | 1,666 | #1,118 |
| 2010s | 4,998 | #470 |
| 2020s | 4,403 | #316 |
Girl names about as popular as Colette
Questions
- Is Colette a boy or girl name?
- Colette is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Colette were girls.
- How popular is the name Colette?
- 962 baby girls were named Colette in the US in 2025, making it the 316th most popular girl name.
- When was Colette most popular?
- Colette peaked in 2025, when 962 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #316 in 2025.
- How many people are named Colette?
- 27,987 babies have been named Colette in the US since 1880. We estimate about 24,769 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 36.
- Where is Colette most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Colette was most common in District of Columbia, at 1.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.