Meaning not yet researched.
Collette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 82 in 2025. Its best rank was #714 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #714 in 1966; #2,243 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Collette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,243 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #714.
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Collette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 82 girls in 2025. Peak: #714 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 189 (1966).
In 2025, 82 US girls were named Collette, making it the 2,243rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 455 places from #2,698 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 64 girls named Collette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #714, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 189. For comparison, it was #2,530 in 2015 and #1,053 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Collette in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 7,672 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,539 babies named Collette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 755 US girls were named Collette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Collette ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #802 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Colette (27,987 babies since 1880), Coletta (2,384 babies since 1880) and Nicollette (1,229 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Colletta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Colletta (489).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Collette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #802 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,410 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,137 | #1,843 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1974 | 96 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1972 | 132 | #929 | — | — |
| 1971 | 149 | #891 | — | — |
| 1970 | 158 | #853 | — | — |
| 1969 | 155 | #827 | — | — |
| 1968 | 136 | #884 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #781 | — | — |
| 1966 | 189 | #714 | — | — |
| 1965 | 133 | #869 | — | — |
| 1964 | 132 | #908 | — | — |
| 1963 | 148 | #861 | — | — |
| 1962 | 156 | #843 | — | — |
| 1961 | 154 | #859 | — | — |
| 1960 | 175 | #769 | — | — |
| 1959 | 159 | #814 | — | — |
| 1958 | 149 | #833 | — | — |
| 1957 | 129 | #897 | — | — |
| 1956 | 100 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1955 | 105 | #969 | — | — |
| 1954 | 100 | #970 | — | — |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1952 | 115 | #858 | — | — |
| 1951 | 97 | #938 | — | — |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1949 | 84 | #974 | — | — |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1933 | 42 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1932 | 43 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,754 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).