Colette Forename
Approximately 422,911 people bear this name
Colette Forename Definition:
A female name. French diminutive of Nicole, now chiefly known in this country as the pen-name of a contemporary French novelist, but formerly not uncommon in England. It was latinized as Coleta or Colecta, and gave rise to the surnames Colet, Collett, Collect.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 100% | 211,132 | 1:315 | 88 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 34,307 | 1:2,152 | 352 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 28,547 | 1:757 | 141 |
| United States | 100% | 28,418 | 1:12,757 | 1,260 |
| Benin | 100% | 19,665 | 1:538 | 72 |
| Belgium | 100% | 10,463 | 1:1,098 | 263 |
| England | 100% | 10,230 | 1:5,435 | 561 |
| Canada | 100% | 9,362 | 1:3,539 | 625 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 8,361 | 1:2,760 | 304 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 7,976 | 1:12,232 | 1,751 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 7,255 | 1:3,257 | 735 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 7,251 | 1:1,568 | 333 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 6,329 | 1:2,904 | 416 |
| Ireland | 100% | 5,028 | 1:924 | 177 |
| South Africa | 100% | 3,478 | 1:15,679 | 2,345 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 3,371 | 1:2,437 | 454 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,966 | 1:4,585 | 691 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,690 | 1:6,283 | 900 |
| Togo | - | 1,731 | 1:4,182 | 696 |
| Mali | 95% | 1,712 | 1:9,917 | 834 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,402 | 1:3,816 | 419 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1,388 | 1:1,328 | 257 |
| Australia | - | 836 | 1:16,337 | 1,248 |
| Germany | 100% | 830 | 1:116,479 | 2,313 |
| Gabon | 100% | 722 | 1:2,608 | 622 |
| Senegal | 99% | 573 | 1:25,447 | 1,372 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 528 | 1:1,068 | 221 |
| Wales | 100% | 473 | 1:6,542 | 668 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 431 | 1:411,982 | 13,786 |
| Guinea | 100% | 298 | 1:39,794 | 1,446 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 291 | 1:105,885 | 10,050 |
| New Zealand | - | 283 | 1:16,028 | 1,380 |
| Egypt | 100% | 282 | 1:325,890 | 10,093 |
| Morocco | 100% | 273 | 1:125,819 | 3,873 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 241 | 1:43,283 | 3,058 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 239 | 1:1,130 | 252 |
| Ghana | 100% | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| Congo | 100% | 211 | 1:23,740 | 2,324 |
| Guyana | 100% | 171 | 1:4,464 | 830 |
| Jamaica | - | 171 | 1:16,861 | 1,524 |
| Mauritius | - | 168 | 1:7,725 | 1,081 |
| Haiti | 100% | 166 | 1:64,620 | 4,073 |
| French Polynesia | - | 157 | 1:1,770 | 410 |
| Thailand | 100% | 153 | 1:457,946 | 22,380 |
| Spain | 100% | 134 | 1:347,239 | 5,320 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 102 | 1:13,347 | 1,836 |
| Malta | - | 97 | 1:4,426 | 628 |
| Brazil | 100% | 94 | 1:2,279,108 | 46,064 |
| Chile | 100% | 91 | 1:193,486 | 3,622 |
| Italy | 100% | 91 | 1:671,012 | 6,559 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 90 | 1:1,030 | 246 |
| Portugal | - | 83 | 1:125,432 | 3,169 |
| Mexico | 100% | 74 | 1:1,677,627 | 10,754 |
| India | 97% | 70 | 1:17,355,400 | 430,897 |
| Monaco | 100% | 57 | 1:675 | 129 |
| Andorra | - | 56 | 1:1,480 | 201 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 53 | 1:1,875 | 402 |
| Austria | 100% | 52 | 1:163,735 | 2,710 |
| Sweden | 100% | 50 | 1:197,158 | 6,891 |
| Zimbabwe | 91% | 45 | 1:342,751 | 17,604 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 43 | 1:1,977 | 148 |
| Denmark | - | 41 | 1:137,793 | 3,538 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 39 | 1:4,559 | 781 |
| Philippines | 100% | 38 | 1:2,789,723 | 56,834 |
| Greece | 100% | 34 | 1:321,604 | 5,247 |
| Jersey | 100% | 31 | 1:3,225 | 462 |
| Israel | - | 29 | 1:289,756 | 7,486 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 28 | 1:3,920 | 684 |
| Indonesia | - | 27 | 1:9,554,210 | 309,150 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 27 | 1:1,127,776 | 38,447 |
| Czechia | 100% | 23 | 1:463,311 | 2,414 |
| Hong Kong | - | 23 | 1:337,075 | 3,808 |
| Uganda | 94% | 21 | 1:1,950,330 | 25,877 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| China | - | 18 | 1:75,891,988 | 63,580 |
| Argentina | 100% | 17 | 1:2,516,073 | 8,541 |
| Norway | 100% | 17 | 1:301,902 | 6,548 |
| Botswana | 100% | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Ecuador | - | 16 | 1:1,107,932 | 8,230 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 16 | 1:6,974 | 1,095 |
| Sudan | - | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Bermuda | - | 15 | 1:4,322 | 727 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 15 | 1:543,488 | 40,661 |
| Peru | 100% | 15 | 1:2,119,430 | 21,304 |
| Panama | 100% | 14 | 1:279,040 | 9,506 |
| Belize | 100% | 12 | 1:29,526 | 2,824 |
| Singapore | - | 12 | 1:523,921 | 11,491 |
| Kenya | - | 11 | 1:4,209,737 | 24,377 |
| Niger | 80% | 10 | 1:1,918,399 | 23,776 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 10 | 1:5,486 | 913 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 10 | 1:632 | 157 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 10 | 1:3,020,189 | 47,166 |
| Burundi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,100,729 | 1,050 |
| Croatia | 100% | 9 | 1:468,564 | 5,419 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 9 | 1:794,666 | 24,808 |
| Uruguay | - | 9 | 1:380,849 | 5,148 |
| Zambia | - | 9 | 1:1,761,644 | 19,373 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:3,906 | 755 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 8 | 1:443,788 | 3,677 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 7 | 1:681,135 | 8,843 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| Bahamas | - | 6 | 1:66,562 | 1,346 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Cuba | - | 5 | 1:2,301,310 | 5,387 |
| Finland | 83% | 5 | 1:1,096,637 | 9,775 |
| Japan | - | 5 | 1:25,597,211 | 50,433 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Barbados | - | 4 | 1:72,447 | 2,209 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 4 | 1:2,389 | 151 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Colombia | - | 3 | 1:15,926,309 | 51,235 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Taiwan | - | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Grenada | 100% | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Honduras | - | 2 | 1:4,408,734 | 23,808 |
| Lebanon | - | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Nicaragua | - | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Russia | - | 2 | 1:72,116,852 | 125,484 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Marshall Islands | - | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Tanzania | - | 1 | 1:52,788,319 | 85,066 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Vietnam | - | 1 | 1:92,623,113 | 10,484 |
The alternate forms: Coletté (5), Colétte (5) & Colètte (2) are calculated separately.
Colette (10,914) may also be a surname.
Colette Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. French diminutive of Nicole, now chiefly known in this country as the pen-name of a contemporary French novelist, but formerly not uncommon in England. It was latinized as Coleta or Colecta, and gave rise to the surnames Colet, Collett, Collect. Promptorium Parvulorum gives Colette as the English and Colecta as the Latin fo rm, and Coleta is found as late as 1513. It was the name of the 15th-C reformer of the Poor Clares, who helped to end the Great Schism of the West.
Colett Hundred Rolls 1273, Coventry Mysteries 15th C. Coletta Feudal Aids 1316. Coleta Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Collette Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Kalotte William Langland, Piers Plowman c. 1360.
A female name. It and French f. forms of Nicholas (q.v.). Nicholaa is not infrequent in medieval Latin records, but is no doubt merely a latinization c f Nicholas when borne by a woman, who would in the vernacular have been simply Nicol or Nicolas. Nicole, Nicolette, Colette are fairly common in France and are occasionally borrowed in England.
Greek (masculine) - Victorious over the people.
A Latin name, meaning: A small collar.
Colette Forename Popularity
Colette Demographics
Average Colette Salary in
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$46,495 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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