Collette

Where Collette comes from

Collette 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. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,700 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #713
    189 babies named Collette — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,316.
  4. 1980
    Collette Wolfe born
    American actress
  5. 1986
    Collette McCallum born
    Australian association football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Collette Wolfe · American actress, born 1980
  • Collette McCallum · Australian association football player, born 1986
  • Collette Lyons · American actress, 1908–1986
  • Collette Roberts · Australian singer, born 1968
  • Collette Sunderman · American voice director and casting director, born 1959

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.