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Cosette

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Cosette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 104 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1040.01% of girls
Peak year
2015141 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
2,964people given the name
Babies named Cosette, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,964 girls have been named Cosette in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 141 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 35%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Cosette
1910s49
1920s42
1930s29
1940s57
1950s133
1960s72
1970s58
1980s60
1990s297
2000s621
2010s1,035
2020s511

In 2015, its biggest year

Cosette was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Cosette

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.