Violet
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Violet is also given to boys.
Pronounced VY-uh-let.
As of October 2026, Violet ranked #13 for girls in US births in 2025 and #14088 for boys in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #1412 for boys in 1905, Nameberry popularity #15 for girls.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #67 | 4,191 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #50 | 4,822 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #47 | 4,881 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #47 | 4,739 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #43 | 4,829 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #36 | 5,416 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #37 | 5,128 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #36 | 5,521 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #20 | 6,471 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #16 | 6,364 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #15 | 6,972 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #13 | 7,546 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Violet on lists
Famous Violets
- (Helen) Violet Bonham CarterGirl
"Violet Asquith", British politician
- Violet OakleyGirl
American muralist
- Violet TuckerGirl
English actress
- Violet BlueGirl
American author and journalist
- Violet BerlinGirl
British TV presenter
- Violet Florence MartinGirl
Irish novelist
- Violet Kate GordonGirl
Woodhouse, English harpsichordist
- (Isobel) Violet HuntGirl
English novelist and salonist
- Violet HopsonGirl
Australian,British actress
- Violet Mary LoraineGirl
English actress and singer
- Violet MacMillanGirl
American stage and silent film actress
- Violet Rosa MarkhamGirl
English feminist author
- Violet MersereauGirl
American actress
- Violet TrefusisGirl
English novelist and socialite
- Violet Augusta Mary VanbrughGirl
American actress; sister of actress Irene Vanbrugh
- Violet Louise WilkeyGirl
American silent film actress
- Violett BeaneGirl
American actress
- Violet ChachkiGirl
stage name of Jason Dardo, American drag queen ("RuPaul's Drag Race")
- Violet Augusta Mary Frederica KennedyGirl
Erskine Jacob, Scottish novelist
- Violet Mary ElliotGirl
Murray,Kynynmound Astor, English socialite
- Violet HiltonGirl
English conjoined twin performer; twin of sister Daisy Hilton
- Violet Ramis (b. 1977)Girl
daughter of actor Harold Ramis
- Violet Jean Leitch (b. 2004)Girl
daughter of model Kirsty Hume and actor Donovan Leitch, Jr.
- Violet Anne Affleck (b. 2005)Girl
daughter of actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
- Violet Maye Grohl (b. 2006)Girl
daughter of musician Dave Grohl
- Violet Buckland (b. 2007)Girl
daughter of guitarist Jonny Buckland of Coldplay
- Violet Madison Nash (b. 2010)Girl
daughter of actress Christina Milian and rapper The Dream
- Violet Marlowe Followill (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of musicians Nathan Followill and Jessie Baylin
- Violet Isabel Strayer (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of musician Emily Robison
- Violet Grace Devereux Sanford (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of actress Poppy Montgomery and Shawn Sanford
- Violet Rachael Miziner (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of beauty queen/TV personality Rachael Finch and dancer Michael Miziner
- Violet BoswellGirl
daughter of soccer player Bobby Boswell
- Violet Moon Howey (b. 2015)Girl
daughter of actress Sarah Shahi and Steve Howey; twin of brother Knox Blue Howey
- Violet Krasinski (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt
- Violet Rae (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of actress Marisa Ramirez
- Violet Storm de Florio (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of ballerina Ashley Bouder and Peter de Florio
- Violet Skye Lazan (b. 2019)Girl
daughter of singer Rachel Platten and Kevin Lazan
- Violet Elizabeth McGraw (b. 2011)Girl
American child actress, younger sister of Madeleine McGraw
Violet in pop culture
- Violet CrawleyGirl
Dowager Countess of Grantham, character on TV series Downton Abbey
- Violet BeauregardeGirl
character in book/film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
- Violet BaudelaireGirl
character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Violet EvergardenGirl
character in the TV show Violet Evergarden and in light novels by Akatsuki Kana
- Violet MilovníciGirl
character in Kresley Cole's "The Arcana Chronicles"
- Violet BridgertonGirl
mother in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton romance series
- Violet AldenGirl
character in the Boxcar Children series
- Violet MarkeyGirl
character in "All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
- Violet ParrGirl
character in Pixar's "The Incredibles"
- Violet ParrGirl
character in "Mean Girls 2"
- Violet SabrewingGirl
character in "DuckTales"
- Violet Anne BickerstaffGirl
Screech's girlfriend on TV's 'Saved By the Bell'
- Violet TurnerGirl
character on TV's "Private Practice"
- Violet NottinghamGirl
character in film "Bedtime Stories"
- VioletGirl
character in Cuba 15
- Violet/JenniferGirl
character in book "The Cellar"
- VioletGirl
character in The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
- Violet TravillaGirl
character in the Mildred Keith series
- Violet HarmonGirl
from the television series American Horror Story
- Violet BickGirl
character in film "It's a Wonderful Life"
- Violet DurnGirl
character in novel "Feed"
- Violet VelvetGirl
one of the fairies from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
- Violet NewsteadGirl
character in film "9 to 5"
- Violet "Vi"Girl
character from TV series "Arcane"
- Princess VioletGirl
main character of Kelly Barnhill's "Iron Hearted Violet"
- Violet SinclairGirl
female protagonist in Alexandra Moody’s novel “Rival Darling”
- Violet SorrengailGirl
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