Violet: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced VY-uh-let · 3 syllables

Violet means “the violet flower”, from Latin and English.

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

How popular is Violet?

Violet was the #13 name in the US in 2025, given to 7,546 babies. It’s rising: up 73% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1900.

Babies named Violet in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1900).

Most popular in Minnesota (#3), Maine (#4), Alaska (#5), New Hampshire (#5), Montana (#6), Vermont (#6), West Virginia (#6), Michigan (#7).

Half of US adults named Violet are older than 51; most are between 18 and 91. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Violet have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Violet means “the violet flower”. It comes from Latin and English.

Violet is pronounced VY-uh-let.

Violet was the #13 name in the US in 2025, given to 7,546 babies. It’s rising: up 73% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1900.

Half of US adults named Violet are older than 51. Most are between 18 and 91.