Colette — #400 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Colette

The Social Security Administration has registered 27,021 babies named Colette between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Colette currently holds the #400 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 789 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colette performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,997 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Colette shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,637 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Colette in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 27,021 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.