Colet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: hair tie, ponytail holder, ponytailer, hair elastic, bobble, hair boble
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔlɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 85K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 26K
- BEBelgium1 in 47K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
660 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hair tie, ponytail holder, ponytailer, hair elastic, bobble, hair boble
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Colet is read(measured from records)
Colet is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Colet in French.
- Spanish25%
hair tie, ponytail holder, ponytailer, hair elastic, bobble, hair boble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
A lower servant in a church.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
John, English educator
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Louise, French writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Colet in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 660 | 1 in 321K | 660 | Colet | 33 |
| FR France | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 87 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 586 | 1 in 85K | 586 | Colet | 71 |
| PH Philippines | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Colet | 30 |
| BE Belgium | 249 | 1 in 47K | 249 | Colet | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 132 | 1 in 26K | 132 | Colet | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 95 | 1 in 182K | 95 | Colet | 14 |
660 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Colet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, third-person singular present active subjunctive of cōlō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, cowherb (used as a coagulant in cheesemaking)
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)
- Henry Coletb. 1430Lord Mayor of London 1486 and 1495
- John Coletb. 1467GBEnglish priest
- Charles Théodore Coletb. 1806FRCatholic archbishop
- Hippolyte-Raymond Coletb. 1808FRFrench composer and music educator (1808–1851)
- Louise Coletb. 1810FRFrench poet, editor (1810–1876)
- Antón Cardób. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish classical pianist
- Enric Fossas i Coletb. 1959ESSpanish mathematician and professor
- Walter ColetEnglish Member of Parliament
- Pere Coletresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 660 | #13,261 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 586 | #7,031 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 586 | #7,027 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 249 | #6,735 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 223 | #7,986 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 102 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 95 | #19,886 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Colet mean, and where does it come from?
- hair tie, ponytail holder, ponytailer, hair elastic, bobble, hair boble Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Colet?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔlɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Colet have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 660 people named Colet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colet.
- Where is Colet most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Colet is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Colet?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 660 people named Colet, about 1 in 321 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Colet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coletThe 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, “Colet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.