Violet
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About Violet
Violet is soft and sweet, yet with a vivacious edge. Today, Violet is the top flower name for girls, outranking Lily and Iris in the Top 100, and the most popular color name for girls, pulling ahead of Scarlett.
The violet is a delicate, sweet-smelling spring flower, associated with faithfulness and modesty, and also the seventh color of the rainbow, named after the flower's vivid purple hue.
A name that dozed quietly for decades, Violet was popular a hundred years ago, then began its steep descent, bottoming out in the early 1980s. But it started rising again in the late 1990s and climbed even more sharply after Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck chose it for their daughter in 2005.
It is now well-used by celebrity parents, including the daughters of Christina Milian, Emily Strayer, Nathan Followill, Dave Grohl, and Emily Blunt.
In children's literature, Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory does it no favors, but Violet Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsThe Incredibles, have helped to redeem it for today's parents.
Violet is also the first name of Dowager Bridgerton, the matriarch in the show Bridgerton, a reminder of the name's genteel, vintage side.
International variations of Violet include Viola, as in the heroine of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, French Violette, and snappy Violeta and Violetta.
Pronounced VY-uh-let.
As of October 2026, Violet ranked #13 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #14.
Editor's take: The name Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #67 | 4,191 | 2,346.1 |
| 2015 | #50 | 4,822 | 2,701.3 |
| 2016 | #47 | 4,881 | 2,754.5 |
| 2017 | #47 | 4,739 | 2,744.9 |
| 2018 | #43 | 4,829 | 2,838.8 |
| 2019 | #36 | 5,416 | 3,226.9 |
| 2020 | #37 | 5,128 | 3,172.2 |
| 2021 | #36 | 5,521 | 3,364.7 |
| 2022 | #20 | 6,471 | 3,945.4 |
| 2023 | #16 | 6,364 | 3,966.1 |
| 2024 | #15 | 6,972 | 4,303.2 |
| 2025 | #13 | 7,546 | 4,694.9 |
World rankings
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Violet on lists
Famous Violets
- (Helen) Violet Bonham Carter
"Violet Asquith", British politician
- Violet Oakley
American muralist
- Violet Tucker
English actress
- Violet Blue
American author and journalist
- Violet Berlin
British TV presenter
- Violet Florence Martin
Irish novelist
- Violet Kate Gordon
Woodhouse, English harpsichordist
- (Isobel) Violet Hunt
English novelist and salonist
- Violet Hopson
Australian,British actress
- Violet Mary Loraine
English actress and singer
- Violet MacMillan
American stage and silent film actress
- Violet Rosa Markham
English feminist author
- Violet Mersereau
American actress
- Violet Trefusis
English novelist and socialite
- Violet Augusta Mary Vanbrugh
American actress; sister of actress Irene Vanbrugh
- Violet Louise Wilkey
American silent film actress
- Violett Beane
American actress
- Violet Chachki
stage name of Jason Dardo, American drag queen ("RuPaul's Drag Race")
- Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy
Erskine Jacob, Scottish novelist
- Violet Mary Elliot
Murray,Kynynmound Astor, English socialite
- Violet Hilton
English conjoined twin performer; twin of sister Daisy Hilton
- Violet Ramis (b. 1977)
daughter of actor Harold Ramis
- Violet Jean Leitch (b. 2004)
daughter of model Kirsty Hume and actor Donovan Leitch, Jr.
- Violet Anne Affleck (b. 2005)
daughter of actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
- Violet Maye Grohl (b. 2006)
daughter of musician Dave Grohl
- Violet Buckland (b. 2007)
daughter of guitarist Jonny Buckland of Coldplay
- Violet Madison Nash (b. 2010)
daughter of actress Christina Milian and rapper The Dream
- Violet Marlowe Followill (b. 2012)
daughter of musicians Nathan Followill and Jessie Baylin
- Violet Isabel Strayer (b. 2012)
daughter of musician Emily Robison
- Violet Grace Devereux Sanford (b. 2013)
daughter of actress Poppy Montgomery and Shawn Sanford
- Violet Rachael Miziner (b. 2013)
daughter of beauty queen/TV personality Rachael Finch and dancer Michael Miziner
- Violet Boswell
daughter of soccer player Bobby Boswell
- Violet Moon Howey (b. 2015)
daughter of actress Sarah Shahi and Steve Howey; twin of brother Knox Blue Howey
- Violet Krasinski (b. 2016)
daughter of actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt
- Violet Rae (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Marisa Ramirez
- Violet Storm de Florio (b. 2016)
daughter of ballerina Ashley Bouder and Peter de Florio
- Violet Skye Lazan (b. 2019)
daughter of singer Rachel Platten and Kevin Lazan
- Violet Elizabeth McGraw (b. 2011)
American child actress, younger sister of Madeleine McGraw
Violet in pop culture
- Violet Crawley
Dowager Countess of Grantham, character on TV series Downton Abbey
- Violet Beauregarde
character in book/film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
- Violet Baudelaire
character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Violet Evergarden
character in the TV show Violet Evergarden and in light novels by Akatsuki Kana
- Violet Milovníci
character in Kresley Cole's "The Arcana Chronicles"
- Violet Bridgerton
mother in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton romance series
- Violet Alden
character in the Boxcar Children series
- Violet Markey
character in "All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
- Violet Parr
character in Pixar's "The Incredibles"
- Violet Parr
character in "Mean Girls 2"
- Violet Sabrewing
character in "DuckTales"
- Violet Anne Bickerstaff
Screech's girlfriend on TV's 'Saved By the Bell'
- Violet Turner
character on TV's "Private Practice"
- Violet Nottingham
character in film "Bedtime Stories"
- Violet
character in Cuba 15
- Violet/Jennifer
character in book "The Cellar"
- Violet
character in The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
- Violet Travilla
character in the Mildred Keith series
- Violet Harmon
from the television series American Horror Story
- Violet Bick
character in film "It's a Wonderful Life"
- Violet Durn
character in novel "Feed"
- Violet Velvet
one of the fairies from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
- Violet Newstead
character in film "9 to 5"
- Violet "Vi"
character from TV series "Arcane"
- Princess Violet
main character of Kelly Barnhill's "Iron Hearted Violet"
- Violet Sinclair
female protagonist in Alexandra Moody’s novel “Rival Darling”
- Violet Sorrengail
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