Collette Girl
How popular is Collette?
#2,239 girl name in 2025
82 baby girls were named Collette in the US in 2025, making it the 2239th most popular girl name.
Collette popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,239 for girls (▲ 455 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 82 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+15% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,524 in 2015, #2,712 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1966 (189 girls) |
| Highest rank | #713 in 1966 |
| First recorded | 1898 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Collette 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 Collette is most popular
Babies named Collette per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Indiana: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Ohio: 0.0 per 1,000 (8 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (22 girls)
Collette by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,699 |
| 1910s | 114 | #1,773 |
| 1920s | 210 | #1,303 |
| 1930s | 372 | #1,076 |
| 1940s | 466 | #972 |
| 1950s | 1,116 | #811 |
| 1960s | 1,539 | #713 |
| 1970s | 1,019 | #853 |
| 1980s | 774 | #1,392 |
| 1990s | 517 | #1,809 |
| 2000s | 391 | #2,736 |
| 2010s | 726 | #2,129 |
| 2020s | 423 | #2,239 |
Girl names about as popular as Collette
Questions
- Is Collette a boy or girl name?
- Collette is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Collette were girls.
- How popular is the name Collette?
- 82 baby girls were named Collette in the US in 2025, making it the 2239th most popular girl name.
- When was Collette most popular?
- Collette peaked in 1966, when 189 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #713 in 1966.
- How many people are named Collette?
- 7,672 babies have been named Collette in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,454 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 52.
- Where is Collette most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Collette was most common in Louisiana, at 0.1 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.