Violet

Where Violet comes from

A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.
— Wiktionary's entry for Violet
  • English
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #238 among girls — 42 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Violet Jessop born
    Titanic crew member
  3. 1900
    Violet Brown born
    Jamaican supercentenarian
  4. 2025
    Peak, #13
    7,546 babies named Violet — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #13 after sinking to #1,279 in 1990.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Violet Jessop · Titanic crew member, 1887–1971
  • Violet Brown · Jamaican supercentenarian, 1900–2017
  • Violet Gibson · Irish aristocrat noted for shooting Mussolini, 1876–1956
  • Violet McGraw · American actress, born 2011
  • Violet Keppel Trefusis · English socialite and author, 1894–1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.