Given name
Coleta
“of the victorious people”
Coleta is a variant of Colette. One French interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Coleta is a variant of Colette. One French interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Coleta is a variant of Colette. An origin associated with Colette is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Coleta is a variant of Colette. The history of Colette gives this family its wider story. The novelist Colette helped give the name wider currency from the 1920s onward. Colette’s formation has more than one route: it can shorten Nicolette or develop from the medieval name Col or Colle.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Coleta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 203
- 0 boys · 203 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1962. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 186 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.
Coleta’s family of names
Coleta has a related form in Colette. In Spanish usage, Coleta has a conventional equivalent in the French form Colette.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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