Alette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Aletta: weibl. Vom., französi sche [a'let] bzw
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 17K
- NLNetherlands1 in 19K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
922 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Aletta: weibl. Vom., französi sche [a'let] bzw. friesische Koseform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alette 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 922 | 1 in 19K | 922 | Alette | 36 |
| NO Norway | 327 | 1 in 17K | 1.1K | Alette | 27 |
| US United States | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 207 | Alette | 101 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Alette | 10 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Alette | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 70 | 1 in 84K | 70 | Alette | 30 |
| SE Sweden | 67 | 1 in 152K | 67 | Alette | 8 |
922 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Alette 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.
Pet form of ADELE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French: Gallicized form of the Middle Low German name ALEIT , which is a contracted form of ADELHEID .
as a word
In Turkish, locative singular of alet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Alette Dorothea Wergelandb. 1780NOmother of Henrik Wergeland and Camilla Collett
- Alette Schreinerb. 1873NONorwegian researcher (1873–1951)
- Alette Engelhartb. 1896NONorwegian schoolteacher (1896-1984)
- Alette Scaveniusb. 1952Danish university teacher
- Alette Simmons-Jiménezb. 1952USAmerican multidisciplinary artist
- Alette Posb. 1962NLfield hockey player
- Alette Coble-Templeb. 1970USProfessor of clinical psychology
- Alette Sijbringb. 1982NLDutch water polo player
- Alette Stangb. 1984NONorwegian handball player
- Berit Alette MiennaSaami yoiker
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Alette?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Alette a male or female name?
- Alette 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 does the name Alette mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Aletta: weibl. Vom., französi sche [a'let] bzw.
- In which country does Alette have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 922 people named Alette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alette.
- Where is Alette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alette is densest in Norway — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alette?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 922 people named Alette, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aletteThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.