Colete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vest, straight jacket
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɒlit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 112K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 167K
- ESSpain1 in 486K
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
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 112K (inferred from the name graph)
1,266 people
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
vest, straight jacket
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colete 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 | 1,266 | 1 in 167K | 1.3K | Colete | 41 |
| PH Philippines | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Colete | 13 |
| ES Spain | 103 | 1 in 486K | 103 | Colete | 15 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 38M | listed | Colete | 8 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Colete | 3 |
| AR Argentina | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 34M | — | Colete | 4 |
1,266 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Colete is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, waistcoat
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)
- Colete Seraphine Verbekeb. 1824BEspinster (born 1824)
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,464 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 103 | #26,991 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 103 | #26,881 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Colete mean, and where does it come from?
- vest, straight jacket Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Colete?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒlit/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Colete have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Colete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colete.
- How common is the name Colete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,266 people named Colete, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coleteThe 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, “Colete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.