The Collet surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 971 people carried this name — #25,459 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is up 2% from 950 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Collet surname
Coll + -et. From a medieval diminutive of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Collet» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 11,700 people named Collet.
244 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 98 départements, most often Côtes-d’Armor.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,518 people named Collet live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
537 people named Collet live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 90 people named Collet live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
23 people named Collet is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Collet,
with a public archive behind them.
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Harriet Jessie Forbes d. 1959
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Susanna Collet d. 1742
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Sir James Collet 1608–
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Deborah Collet 1630–
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Philibert Collet 1643–1718 · jurist
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Anne Collet 1643–1668 · nun
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Collet.
- Collado 9,201 · U.S. census
- Collard 4,053 · U.S. census
- Collart 106 · U.S. census
- Collas 152 · U.S. census
- Colle 342 · U.S. census
- Collen 577 · U.S. census
- Colletta 613 · U.S. census
- Collette 4,927 · U.S. census
- Colletti 2,710 · U.S. census
- Colley 8,887 · U.S. census
- Colli 552 · U.S. census
- Collias 196 · U.S. census
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