Collette
#2,239 for girls in 2025, 82 births
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 189 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,672since 1898
Collette over time
Rank among girls' names. Collette has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,239 | 82 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 |
| 2022 | #2,425 | 75 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 82 |
| 2016 | #2,149 | 90 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 |
| 2014 | #2,129 | 90 |
| 2013 | #2,326 | 79 |
| 2012 | #2,708 | 65 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,472 | 41 |
| 2002 | #3,241 | 43 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #2,846 | 46 |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 |
| 1991 | #2,014 | 68 |
| 1990 | #1,813 | 79 |
| 1989 | #1,667 | 82 |
| 1988 | #1,660 | 78 |
| 1987 | #1,545 | 82 |
| 1986 | #1,392 | 92 |
| 1985 | #1,523 | 80 |
| 1984 | #1,593 | 70 |
| 1983 | #1,531 | 73 |
| 1982 | #1,510 | 79 |
| 1981 | #1,790 | 62 |
| 1980 | #1,542 | 76 |
| 1979 | #1,661 | 67 |
| 1978 | #1,422 | 81 |
| 1977 | #1,414 | 79 |
| 1976 | #1,355 | 79 |
| 1975 | #1,316 | 83 |
| 1974 | #1,169 | 96 |
| 1973 | #1,151 | 95 |
| 1972 | #928 | 132 |
| 1971 | #889 | 149 |
| 1970 | #853 | 158 |
| 1969 | #826 | 155 |
| 1968 | #883 | 136 |
| 1967 | #779 | 161 |
| 1966 | #713 | 189 |
| 1965 | #868 | 133 |
| 1964 | #908 | 132 |
| 1963 | #861 | 148 |
| 1962 | #842 | 156 |
| 1961 | #858 | 154 |
| 1960 | #769 | 175 |
| 1959 | #811 | 159 |
| 1958 | #833 | 149 |
| 1957 | #897 | 129 |
| 1956 | #1,023 | 100 |
| 1955 | #967 | 105 |
| 1954 | #969 | 100 |
| 1953 | #1,040 | 86 |
| 1952 | #857 | 115 |
| 1951 | #938 | 97 |
| 1950 | #1,053 | 76 |
| 1949 | #973 | 84 |
| 1948 | #1,144 | 61 |
| 1947 | #1,183 | 58 |
| 1946 | #1,481 | 35 |
| 1945 | #1,213 | 43 |
| 1944 | #1,224 | 42 |
| 1943 | #1,212 | 44 |
| 1942 | #1,387 | 34 |
| 1941 | #1,418 | 30 |
| 1940 | #1,242 | 35 |
| 1939 | #1,149 | 40 |
| 1938 | #1,159 | 39 |
| 1937 | #1,196 | 36 |
| 1936 | #1,081 | 42 |
| 1935 | #1,135 | 38 |
| 1934 | #1,166 | 37 |
| 1933 | #1,076 | 42 |
| 1932 | #1,082 | 43 |
| 1931 | #1,375 | 29 |
| 1930 | #1,535 | 26 |
| 1929 | #1,306 | 33 |
| 1928 | #1,394 | 31 |
| 1927 | #1,303 | 37 |
| 1926 | #1,449 | 31 |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #2,263 | 16 |
| 1919 | #2,264 | 15 |
| 1918 | #2,102 | 17 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 |
| 1915 | #2,050 | 15 |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 |
| 1913 | #2,034 | 10 |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 |
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| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Collette! It came in at #1,700, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1898–1909, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Collette is popular in 1944
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#600 · 1 in 10,557
Best ever in a state: #176 in Utah, 1972.
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| Illinois | #600 | 6 | 1 in 10,557 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Collette
- 455 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #2,239)
- 473 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #2,239)
- 285 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #2,239)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 1949 (#1,144 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 1973 (#928 → #1,151)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 1966 at #713 (189 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1957–1972
- Highest: 1 in 8,953 girls born in 1966 were named Collette (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,601 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 20.1% of all girls named Collette (1,539) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,700 (1898) | #1,700 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 114 | #1,773 (1910) | #2,189 |
| 1920s | 210 | #1,303 (1927) | #2,207 |
| 1930s | 372 | #1,076 (1933) | #1,195 |
| 1940s | 466 | #973 (1949) | #1,248 |
| 1950s | 1,116 | #811 (1959) | #939 |
| 1960s | 1,539 | #713 (1966) | #831 |
| 1970s | 1,019 | #853 (1970) | #1,216 |
| 1980s | 774 | #1,392 (1986) | #1,575 |
| 1990s | 517 | #1,813 (1990) | #2,571 |
| 2000s | 391 | #2,740 (2000) | #3,788 |
| 2010s | 726 | #2,129 (2014) | #2,579 |
| 2020s | 423 | #2,239 (2025) | #2,512 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Collette in 1944
Top girls' names in 1944
More about 1944
girls
1,327,223 girls got a published name in 1944; 1 in 31,601 of them was named Collette, which outranked 76.7% of the 5,243 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,205Sheryll43
- #1,205Tressie43
- #1,205Velva43
- #1,224Collette42
- #1,224Armida42
- #1,224Dayle42
- #1,224Earleen42
- #1,236Arnetta41
- #1,236Audry41
- #1,236Cara41
Tied with 11 names at #1,224; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.