Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 Salete
/sah · LEH · teh/
Meaning
“Unknown”
Brazilian Portuguese feminine name, likely derived from a short form of Nossa Senhora de La Salette, a French Marian apparition site; the name is entirely Brazilian-Catholic in register.
Nicknames
sale
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Tied firmly to Brazilian Marian devotion and the mid-20th century; rare in new births.
The cultural moment.
Common in Brazil from the 1950s through the 1970s; very rare in new births since the 1990s.