# Violet (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/violet/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Vyolette |
| US babies named this | 185,845 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 284 / 185,561 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15,655, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,902 | 101 |
| 2012 | 3,283 | 89 |
| 2013 | 3,935 | 69 |
| 2014 | 4,193 | 67 |
| 2015 | 4,822 | 50 |
| 2016 | 4,882 | 47 |
| 2017 | 4,741 | 47 |
| 2018 | 4,834 | 43 |
| 2019 | 5,418 | 36 |
| 2020 | 5,128 | 37 |
| 2021 | 5,524 | 36 |
| 2022 | 6,477 | 20 |
| 2023 | 6,370 | 16 |
| 2024 | 6,986 | 15 |
| 2025 | 7,546 | 13 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 5 | 4,023 |
| 1938 | 6 | 3,523 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,946 |
| 1940 | 7 | 3,121 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,981 |
| 1942 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 1947 | 5 | 4,240 |
| 2010 | 5 | 14,146 |
| 2013 | 6 | 12,047 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,745 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,975 |
| 2019 | 6 | 12,045 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12,231 |
| 2023 | 5 | 14,061 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,137 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 513 | 114 |
| 2012 | 580 | 100 |
| 2013 | 709 | 78 |
| 2014 | 754 | 71 |
| 2015 | 854 | 68 |
| 2016 | 959 | 65 |
| 2017 | 911 | 62 |
| 2018 | 970 | 53 |
| 2019 | 990 | 51 |
| 2020 | 962 | 48 |
| 2021 | 1,057 | 45 |
| 2022 | 1,057 | 43 |
| 2023 | 1,034 | 42 |
| 2024 | 1,010 | 42 |
| 2025 | 1,061 | 37 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Виолета
- Danish: Viola
- Finnish: Orvokki, Viola
- French: Violette
- Greek: Ιόνη, Ιολάνθη
- Hebrew: סִיגָלִית
- Hungarian: Ibolya, Viola
- Icelandic: Vióletta, Víóletta
- Italian: Viola, Violetta
- Japanese: 菫
- Norwegian: Viola
- Polish: Wioleta, Wioletta
- Portuguese: Violeta
- Romanian: Violeta
- Russian: Виолетта
- Spanish: Violeta
- Swedish: Viola

## People named Violet

- Violet McGraw, American actress (born 2011)
- Violet Keppel Trefusis, English socialite and author (1894–1972)
- Violet Hunt, British writer (1862-1942)
- Violet Oakley, American artist (1874-1961)
- Violet Chachki, American drag queen and burlesque performer
- Violet Rose Olney, British athlete
- Violet Webb, British athlete
- Violet Archer, Canadian classical music composer (1913-2000)
- Violet MacMillan, American actress (1887–1953)
- Violet Kemble-Cooper, British actress (1886-1961)
- Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, British artist and noblewoman (1856-1937)
- Violet Mersereau, actress (1892-1975)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.