Collette

Collette is the 6,816th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,748 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 63,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,748
Rank: 6,816th
How common: 1 in 63,000
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

. From a medieval diminutive of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Collette described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Collette

Toni Collette (born 1972)Australian actress and musician

People named Collette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Collette

Also a first name

Collette has been given to 7,672 American babies as a first name since 1898, peaking in 1966. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.