Claudette
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Claudette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 53rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Claude.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 6.2K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
17,470 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Claude
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Claudette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17,470 | 1 in 19K | 17K | Claudette | 409 |
| FR France | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 48K | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | #762 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 5 | Claudette | 171 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Claudette | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Claudette | 137 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Claudette | 63 |
| JM Jamaica | #53 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Claudette | 22 |
| GY Guyana | #69 | 543 | 1 in 1.4K | 543 | Claudette | 9 |
17,470 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the hanks-first-names-2001 register; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Claudette is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutif de Claude, du latin Claudius.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Feminine pet form of cLaupDE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French: feminine diminutive form of CLAUDE , now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Claudette Colbertb. 1903FRAmerican actress (1903–1996)
- Colette Brossetb. 1922FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1922-2007)
- Claudette Nevinsb. 1937USAmerican actress (1937-2020)
- Claudette Colvinb. 1939USAfrican-American civil rights activist (1939–2026)
- Claudette Werleighb. 1946HTPrime Minister of Haiti
- Claudette Dionb. 1948CACanadian singer
- Michèle Rivasib. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1953–2023)
- Céline Dionb. 1968CAnot in their usual nameFrench Canadian singer (born 1968)
- Michelle Murphyb. 1969CAnot in their usual nameCanadian philosopher
- Claudette Minkb. 1971CACanadian actress (born 1971)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1981 | 48K | #1,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17K | #1,734 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 543 | #162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #1,734 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Claudette mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Claude Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Claudette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Claudette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled claudette.
- Where is Claudette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Claudette is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Claudette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,470 people named Claudette in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Claudette compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Claudette is the 53rd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- Is Claudette a male or female name?
- Claudette is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Claudette?
- In the etymology graph, Claudia, Gladys and Claudine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Claudie.
What do you want to know about Claudette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/claudetteThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Claudette” — the 53rd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.