Girl name#770 of girl names
Colette
Pronounced K OW1 L EH1 T (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 133 years in use
How popular is Colette?
Colette is a girls' name, and first appears in 1892. It has been given to 27,021 children — the 770th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 789 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K OW1 L EH1 T
- Stress pattern:
- 11
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Colette
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Colette
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Colette?
- Colette ranks 770th among girls' names in US records, with 27,021 births since 1892. Over the past decade it accounts for 6,513.
- Is Colette a unisex name?
- No. Colette is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Colette most popular?
- 2024, when 789 children were given the name. It has been in use for 133 years and is still recorded as of 2024.