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Violet

Rank in 2024
#15
Born in 2024
6,972
Peak year
2024 · #15
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 6,972 girls were named Violet, about 1 in every 231.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 177,973 girls have been named Violet since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Violet per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.7
    Greatest
  2. 1.1
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.7
    Gen Z
  7. 3.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 55,873 babies, 2.73 per 1,000. Silent: 22,700 babies, 1.10 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,807 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,238 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,280 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19,237 babies, 0.66 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 63,269 babies, 3.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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

  • A female given name from English.
Origin
English
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Violet, CC BY-SA 4.0.