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Baby name
Colette
Girl
Origin of the name
Colette is a French pet form of Colas, itself a short form of Nicolas, that is, Nicholas. The writer Colette made it famous.
Rising name
27,987births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 316rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Colette are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Colette is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Colette is most common in Utah (2.1 times), Illinois (1.9) and Minnesota (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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