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How popular is the name Colette?
Births per year, rank history and how many Colettes are alive today.
Colette (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1407th in 2025 and given to 22 babies. The name peaked in 1996, when 58 babies were given the name, the 479th most popular that year. It has declined since 1996; the 2025 figure is roughly 38% of its peak.
The Colette you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old. Half of all Colettes born in England and Wales are between 16 and 34, and there are at least 990 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Colette - on average, only one in every 319 such rooms contains a Colette.
How many babies are named Colette each year?
Where does Colette rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Colette most popular?
Colette peaked in 1996, when 58 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Colette?
At least 990 people named Colette born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Colette?
Most living Colettes are between 16 and 34; the most common age is about 31.
Is Colette becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 1996 peak.