COLETTE  

Gender: F
Origin: French, diminutive of NICOLE
Meaning: "victory of the people"

Modern parents might be attracted to this name because of the French novelist -- though pen name Colette was actually her last name, Sidonie her first. Dylan McDermott used it for his daughter, as did actress Constance Zimmer.

Variations:
Collett, Collet, Coetta, Collette, Colletta, Kolette, Nicolette, Coe, Collete, Kollette, Coleta, Coletta

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