Collette

girls:

7.5k births since 1898

#1872 (67th percentile)

overall:

7.5k births since 1898

#3109 (60th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Collette is the #3,109 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,524 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 59.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,872 (67.3% percentile) for all time with 7,524 births since 1898.

Collette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (first recorded for girls in 1898). Birth data for Collette is available in 115 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Collette reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 24.2% percentile (ranked #562) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 108 births per million (ranked 24.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Collette ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 36.1% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Collette".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
7,524
Peak Births
189
Peak Year
1966
First Recorded
1898
Peak Percentile
24.2%
Current Percentile
6.7%
Peak Rank
#562
Current Rank
#884
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Collette

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Collette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 40.4% confident that Collette is pronounced as kuh-LEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is koh-LEHT, at 34.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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40.4%
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kuh-LEHT (2 syllables)
Verified
40.4% confidence
K AH0 L EH1 T
koh-LEHT (2 syllables)
34.6% confidence
K OW0 L EH1 T
kah-LEHT (2 syllables)
13.5% confidence
K AA0 L EH1 T
KOH-LEHT (2 syllables)
7.7% confidence
K OW1 L EH1 T
kah-leht (2 syllables)
3.8% confidence
K AA0 L EH0 T

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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