Entry № 2126 · French origin

Colette Colette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ko-LET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Victory of the people"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "victory of the people".

Colette is a French diminutive of Nicole — itself from the Greek nikē (victory) and laos (people). The novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), known simply as Colette, is the most famous bearer.

Colette is rising in the U.S. — currently in the top 600.

Victory of the people. The French novelist.

The name in its native script.

Colette
Transliteration
Colette
Pronunciation
/ kəˈlɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Colette stands.

Colette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Colettes before her.

Real people
Colette
French novelist.
1873 – 1954
In fiction
Colette
Character in Pixar's Ratatouille.
2007 film

Names connected to Colette.

The number behind Colette.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Colette reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.