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Cosette

Cosette reached its high-water mark in 2015 at number 1,554, and has been recorded 3,080 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,777th. About 2,900 Cosettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cosette

By the numbers

Total US births
3,080
Estimated living today
2,900
Median age today
13
Peak year
2015
Best rank
1,554th
Rank in 2025
1,777th
First recorded
1912

How old the living Cosettes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,080 babies given the name since 1912, about 2,900 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Cosette is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cosette is most concentrated in Utah (19.8×), Arizona (5.5×), California (3.6×), Washington (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular girls’ names the year Cosette peaked:

All the names of 2015

Cosette elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Cosette 1,560 303rd
Belgium girls Cosette 144 541st
England and Wales girls Cosette 32 2,643rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Cosette: rank by region

In 2025, Cosette was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Cosette 391 13

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Cosette appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (160th) and Province of East Flanders (250th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Cosette against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.