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Violet
Pronunciation Gender Female Meaning "
violet "
Violet is a female
given name which comes from the
eponymous flower . As with other such names, its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so; Violet was the 88th most frequent girls' given name in 1900, dropping below position 1000 by 1960. In 1990, the name appeared again in the top 1000 at position 289
[1] and subsequently increased in popularity. It was the 20th most used name for newborn American girls in 2022.
[2]
[3] It rose rapidly in popularity for American girls born that year, one of several fashionable names that contain a letter
v .
[4]
The cognates in other languages are Viola , Violeta, Violetta , or Violette . These are common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country.
Name variants
Violet –
English
Violette –
French ,
English
Violetta –
Italian ,
Belgian ,
Dutch
Viola –
Latin ,
English ,
Italian ,
German ,
Swedish
Violeta –
Spanish ,
Greek ,
Portuguese ,
Romanian ,
Lithuanian ,
Albanian
Виолета / Violeta –
Serbian
Виолета (Violeta) –
Bulgarian
Віолетта (Violetta) or Віолета (Violeta) -
Ukrainian
Виолетта (Violetta) or Виолета (Violeta) –
Russian
Βιολέττα (Violetta) or Βιολέτα (Violeta) –
Greek
Wioleta, Wiola, Wioletta or Violetta –
Polish
Ia -
Hebrew
People
Violet Aitken (1886–1987), British suffragette who was force-fed
Violet Alva (1908–1969), Indian lawyer, politician and deputy chair of the Rajya Sabha, and Indian National Congress member
Violet Archer (1913–2000), Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist
Violet Astor (1889–1965), English aristocrat
Violet Attlee (1895–1964), English wife of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Violet Barclay (1922–2010), American illustrator
Violet Barungi (born 1943), Ugandan writer and editor
Violet Benson (born 1988), Russian-born American Internet personality
Violet Berlin (born 1968), British television presenter, producer and scriptwriter
Violet Bidwill Wolfner (1900–1962), owner of the Chicago / St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL)
Violet Blue (author) , American writer and sex educator
Violet Brown (1900–2017), Jamaican supercentenarian
Violet Brunton (1878–1951), English artist
Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), British politician and diarist
Violet Cameron (1862–1919), English actress and singer
Violet Carson (1898–1983), British actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist
Violet Chachki , American drag queen, burlesque dancer, recording artist, TV personality, and model
Violet Cliff (1916–2003), British pair skater
Violet Dandridge (1878–1956), American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist
Violet Dickson (1896–1991), wife of British colonial administrator H. R. P. Dickson
Violet M. Digby (1900–1960), British artist
Violet Douglas-Pennant (1869–1945), British philanthropist and supporter of local government
Violet Duca , Turkish volleyball player and manager
Violet Elton (died 1969), English badminton player
Violet Englefield (1881–1946), British actress and singer
Violet Fane , pen name of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (1843–1905), British poet, writer, and ambassadress
Violet Farebrother (1888–1969), English film actress
Violet Gibson (1876–1956), Irish aristocrat, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini
Violet Gillett (1898–1996), Canadian painter and educator
Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1948), British musician
Violet Graham (1890–1967), English stage and film actress
Violet Hackbarth (1919–1988), American baseball player
Violet Hamilton (1949–2014), photographer who lived and worked in Australia, the US, and the UK
Violet Heming (1895–1981), English stage and screen actress
Violet Henry-Anderson (1882–1935), Scottish-born golfer and partner of poet Elsa Gidlow
Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis (1865–1929), British peer
Violet Hopkins (born 1973), American painter
Violet Hopson (1887–1973), British actress
Violet Hunt (1862–1942), British writer
Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton (1925–2004), Scottish geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics
Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish writer
Violet Jessop (1887–1971), Argentine survivor of three shipwrecks
Violet Annie Lee (1909–1982), mother of the
Kray twins
Violet Kajubiri , former General Secretary of the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda, and sister of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (1917–2007), Japanese American poet, composer, and translator of haiku
Violet Kemble-Cooper (1886–1961), British stage and film actress
Violet King Henry (1929–1982), Canadian lawyer
Violet Knights (1894–1973), American silent film actress
Violet La Plante (1908–1984), American silent film actress
Violet Loraine (1886–1956), English actress and singer
Violet MacMillan (1887–1953), American actress
Violet Makuto (born 1993), Kenyan volleyball player
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856–1937), British artist and noblewoman
Violet Markham (1872–1959), British writer and social reformer
Violet May Cottrell (1887–1971), New Zealand writer, poet, and spiritualist
Violet Melnotte (1855–1935), British stage performer, actress-manager, and theatre owner
Violet Mersereau (1892–1975), American stage and film actress
Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner (1872–1958), English Edwardian society lady, and editor of the political monthly, National Review
Violet Milstead (1919–2014), Canadian aviator
Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett (1867–1945), British humanitarian and activist
Violet Mount , Australian soprano
Violet Myers (1875–1943), classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill
Violet Needham (1876–1967), English author
Violet Neilson , Jamaican politician
Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915), Irish writer
Violet Oaklander (1927–2021), American child therapist and author
Violet Oakley (1874–1961), American artist
Violet Odogwu , Nigerian track and field athlete
Violet Olney (1911–1999), English athlete
Violet Owen (1902–1998), British tennis and hockey player
Violet Palmer (born 1964), American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA
Violet Philpott (1922–2012), English puppeteer and author
Violet Piercy (1889–1972), English long-distance runner
Violet Pinckney (1871–1955), English tennis player
Violet Plummer (1873–1962), South Australian medical doctor
Violet Powell (1912–2002), British writer and critic
Violet Richardson Ward (1888–1978), founder of the Berkeley Women's Gymnasium
Violet Roche (1885–1967), New Zealand journalist and welfare worker
Violet Romer (1886–1970), American dancer
Violet Ryley (1884–1949), Canadian dietitian
Violet Skies , Welsh singer-songwriter
Violet Sleigh (born 1935), the first Miss Malaya
Violet Smith , American female jockey
Violet Teague (1872–1951), Australian artist
Violet Tillard (1874–1922), suffragette, nurse, pacifist, conscientious objector supporter, famine relief worker, and Quaker
Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), English writer and socialite
Violet Tweedale (1862–1936), Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist
Violet Van der Elst (1882–1966), British entrepreneur and campaigner best known for activities against the death penalty
Violet Vanbrugh (1867–1942), English actress
Violet Vimpany (1886–1979), Australian painter and etcher
Violet Walrond (1905–1996), New Zealand swimmer
Violet Wattenberg (born 1978), Netherlands international cricketer
Violet Webb (1915–1999), English track and field athlete
Violet Wegner (1887–1960), British singer
Violet Whiteman (1873–1952), English-born New Zealand artist
Violet Wilkey (1903–1976), American child actress
Violet Winspear (1928–1989), British writer
Violet Wood (1899–2012), British supercentenarian
Violet Yong Wui Wui (born 1977), Malaysian lawyer and politician
Fictional characters
Violet, on the American sketch comedy TV series
Don't Look Now
Daisy, Lily, and Violet , Kanto Gym Leaders in
Pokémon and
Misty's sisters
Violet, one of the Thea Sisters from
China in
Thea Stilton
Violet (comics) , a DC Comics character
Violet, the title character from the
musical
Violet, one of the five main characters in the Winterborne Home series by
Ally Carter
Lee Chaolan or Violet, a Tekken 4 character
Violet Crawley , Dowager Countess of Grantham, a character on Downton Abbey
Violet Gamart, in Penelope Fitzgerald's
The Bookshop (1978)
Violet Gibson, in the book series Spy School by
Stuart Gibbs
Violet Gray , a Peanuts character
Violet Baudelaire , an A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Violet Beauregarde , a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
Violet Bridgerton, Dowager Lady Bridgerton, mother of the Bridgerton children in Julia Quinn's
Bridgerton series
Violet Evergarden , the protagonist of Kana Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden (2015)
Violet Finn, from the American
ABC soap opera,
General Hospital
Violet Harmon , an American Horror Story: Murder House character
Violet Highway , an EastEnders character
Violet Parr , a The Incredibles character
Violet Sabrewing, a supporting character from
DuckTales (2017)
Violet Song jat Shariff , an UltraViolet character
Violet Turner , a Private Practice character
Violet Weiler, from
Fred Mustard Stewart 's novel
Ellis Island , also on the
TV miniseries of the same name
Violet Wilson , from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street
Equivalents from other cultures
The floral-inspired name is present in other cultures. Examples include:
[5]
Sumire (Japanese)
Calfuray (Mapuche)
Ibolya (Hungarian)
Viola (Italian; diminutive Violetta)
Violeta (Romanian)
Wiola (Polish; variants Wioleta, Wioletta)
Sigal (Hebrew)
References