Female name
Cosette
3,080 births (United States, 1880–2025), peaking in 2015. Expression number: 6.
Origin
(Surname) Variant of Cozette. (First name) Nickname of Euphrasie in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo: Cosette, read Euphrasie. The little girl was named Euphrasie. But out of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette, by that sweet and graceful instinct of mothers and of the common people which changes Josefa into Pepita and Françoise into Sillette. This is a kind of derivative which disrupts and disconcerts all the science of etymologists. We have known a grandmother who had succeeded in making Gnon out of Théodore. — (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables)Translated by Arcanes from the French Wiktionnaire, entry “Cosette”, text and translation under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In the United States
Peak in 2015: 141 births. 3,080 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 1954. It is still given: 522 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1,560 | 1900–2025 | — |
| Switzerland | 310* | 1915–2025 | — |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
6
responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
3 + 6 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 5 = 24 → 6
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
7
reflection, inner life, seeking
6 + 5 + 5 = 16 → 7
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
3 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 8
- Digits missing from the name
- 4, 7, 8, 9
- Most frequent digit
- 2 · cooperation, sensitivity, connection
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.