Alette

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alette is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name348 records spelled Alette4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Alétte

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·A 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 word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 37 years between 1964–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 229 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alette?

We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Alette (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Alette have the most bearers?

We estimate about 922 people bear Alette in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Alette compared with other names?

In Bermuda, Alette is the 611th most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.

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.