Given name & surname
Coletta
“of the victorious people”
Coletta is a variant of Colette. One French interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Coletta is a variant of Colette. One French interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Coletta 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 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Coletta 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
Coletta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,384
- 0 boys · 2,384 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 62 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,570 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −2%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,570 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 2.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 62 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 991 as a first name in 2020; 1,834 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Coletta’s family of names
Coletta has a related form in Colette. In Italian usage, Coletta has a conventional equivalent in the French form Colette.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Coletta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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