Violet
Nationally, Violet lands at #13 for 2025, and gathering speed. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 185,561 American children have carried it so far.
What Violet carries
Violet · Latin
“violet”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Violet’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Violet, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Violet since 1880
Violet is at its all-time peak right now: #13 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Violet is most common
Violet is most common in Vermont: 1.85% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Wyoming (1.48%) and Alaska (1.45%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Violet
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Luca
#14 in 2025 · Latin
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
Nora
#20 in 2025 · Latin
Julian
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Valentina
#35 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with V · Latin names · all names
About Violet
Where does Violet rank right now?
Nationally, Violet lands at #13 for 2025, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Violet mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “violet”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Violet?
The recipe puts Luca first, then Nora, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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