Given name & surname
Alette
Alette is a feminine given name. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Middle Low German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 120
- 0 boys · 120 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,287 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,287 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 207 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alette’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Alette has a conventional equivalent in the English form Aletta. Alette is a form of Aleit.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Alette
- Alette Posfield hockey playerborn 1962
- Alette SijbringDutch water polo playerborn 1982
- Alette SchreinerNorwegian researcher (1873–1951)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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