Claudette

Where Claudette comes from

Claudette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1903
    Claudette Colbert born
    American actress
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,795 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1936
    Peak, #232
    703 babies named Claudette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1939
    Claudette Colvin born
    African-American civil rights activist
  5. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #531.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Claudette Colbert · American actress, 1903–1996
  • Claudette Colvin · African-American civil rights activist, 1939–2026
  • Claudette Werleigh · Prime Minister of Haiti, born 1946
  • Claudette Mink · Canadian actress, born 1971
  • Claudette Herbster-Josland · fencer, born 1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.