Colette
2025 SSA
About Colette
Like the French author with whom the name is most closely associated, Colette is a chic and charming name, sharp, stylish, and feminine but without the frills of Nicolette. After disappearing from the charts for 30 years, Colette rejoined the US Top 1000 back in 2012 and is still on the rise.
A short from of Nicolette, an elaborate French diminutive of Nicole, Colette ultimately comes from Nicholas, lending it the strong meaning "people of victory". Given to nearly 800 babies in a recent year in the US, it has also seen a slightly resurgence in France too.
Actor Dylan McDermott used this stylish name for his daughter, as did actress Constance Zimmer. There's an appealing animated Colette featured in the film Ratatouille, though the most famous Colette remains the author, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who used it mononymously.
Pronounced koh-LET.
As of October 2026, Colette ranked #316 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #158.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #523 | 590 | 330.3 |
| 2015 | #525 | 597 | 334.4 |
| 2016 | #470 | 676 | 381.5 |
| 2017 | #530 | 585 | 338.8 |
| 2018 | #535 | 587 | 345.1 |
| 2019 | #497 | 630 | 375.4 |
| 2020 | #532 | 568 | 351.4 |
| 2021 | #456 | 686 | 418.1 |
| 2022 | #450 | 698 | 425.6 |
| 2023 | #442 | 697 | 434.4 |
| 2024 | #400 | 789 | 487 |
| 2025 | #316 | 962 | 598.5 |
World rankings
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Colette on lists
Famous Colettes
- (Sidonie
Gabrielle) Colette, French novelist
- Saint Colette of Corbie (born Nicole Boellet)
French abbess; founder of the Colettine Poor Clares
- Colette de Jouvenel aka Bel
Gazou, daughter of novelist Colette and Henry de Jouvenel
- Colette Peignot aka Laure
French author
- Colette Appel
American pair skater
- Colette Calascione
American artist
- Colette Carr
American singer,songwriter
- Colette Deréal (born Colette Denise de Glarélial)
French actress and singer
- Colette Fitzpatrick
Irish TV news anchor
- Colette Flesch
Luxembourgian politician and Olympic fencer
- Colette Giudicelli
French Senator
- Colette Mann
Australian actress
- Colette Melot
French Senator
- Colette Marino aka DJ Colette
American DJ
- Colette Katy Butler
American vlogger (as part of the Shaytards)
- Colette Alley
sister of American actress Kirstie Alley
- Colette Rose McDermott (b. 1996)
daughter of actor Dylan McDermott
- Colette Lamoureux (b. 2008)
daughter of actress Constance Zimmer and Russ Lamoureux
- Colette Dubrow (b. 2011)
daughter of reality TV personality Heather Dubrow of "Real Housewives of Orange County"
- Colette Koala Haggerty (b. 2018)
daughter of American rapper, singer, and songwriter Macklemore, sister to Sloane Ava Simone
- Colette Kathleen Marmet (b. 2020)
daughter of actress Robin Tunney
- Colette Clifford
daughter of YouTuber Cameron Clifford
Colette in pop culture
- Colette Sheward
character on British TV series "Holby City"
- Colette Tatou
character in Disney's "Ratatouille"
- Colette Valois
character on TV's "Pan Am"
- Colette Brunel
character in video game "Tales of Symphonia"
- Colette
character in film "Poetic Justice"
- Colette
character in the Dear Dumb Diary series by Jim Benton
- Colette Beauvoir
character in "Generation Dead" by Daniel Waters
- Colette Iselin
character in "Marie Antoinette: Serial Killer" by Katie Alender
- Colette Bonnet
character in "Sims" series
- Colette Mullen
Cain's wife on CW's "Supernatural"
- Colette
carnival worker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series Of Unfortunate Events"
- Colette Dubois
Character in Nina LaCour's novel "Yerba Buena"