Collette
Collette was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,243 among girls’ names; 7,672 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,330 Americans named Collette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 28 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Collette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Collette?
#2,243 among girls’ names, 2025
Collette rose from #2,530 in 2015 to #2,243 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.8 to 51.0 per million.
189 babies in 1966, the peak
Collette peaked in 1966, when 189 girls were given it, #714 among girls’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,243 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,698 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,524 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,429 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,492 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,724 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,459 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,149 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,272 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,153 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,530 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,130 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,329 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,713 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,790 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,324 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,959 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,564 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,730 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,869 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,729 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,300 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,478 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,251 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,377 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,740 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,109 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,849 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,665 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,217 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,707 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,884 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,576 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,015 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,810 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,664 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,662 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,394 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,527 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,594 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,539 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,512 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,544 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,663 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,418 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 96 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,152 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 132 | #929 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 149 | #891 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 158 | #853 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 155 | #827 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 136 | #884 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 161 | #781 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 189 | #714 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 133 | #869 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 132 | #908 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 148 | #861 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 156 | #843 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 154 | #859 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 175 | #769 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 159 | #814 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 149 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 129 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 100 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 105 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 100 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 115 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 97 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 84 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,422 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,173 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 42 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 43 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,209 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,139 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,063 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,299 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,055 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,006 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,253 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Collette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Collette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Collette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Collette, and how old are they?
6,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 7,672 Americans ever recorded as Collette. The median Collette alive today is 52 years old; half are between 28 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 6,508 people named Collette (6,495 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 204 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,690 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,720 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 673 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 989 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Collette born?
The states with the most babies named Collette are California, Illinois and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 914 | #2,137 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 381 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 354 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 243 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 185 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 147 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 118 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 118 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Collette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Collette is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Collette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,919 babies since 1880, Collette is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 1,068 babies (7.7%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Collette
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Collette and names like it
- Compare Collette and ColetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCollette peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Collette since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Collette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Collette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.