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Violette

#894 in 2025Girls' name

Violet

Violette has been given to 6,403 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #894 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 298 recorded.

Babies named Violette, 2025

1 in 11,100

Violette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Violette: meaning, origin, and history

Violet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Violette means

Violette means “violet”, associated with violette.

Origin, language, and formation

Violette is used in French.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Violette is pronounced /vjɔ.lɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,403 girls were recorded with the name Violette between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 298 in 2025; its best national rank was #591 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #982 in 2020 to #894 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,218 in 2015 to #894 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Violette?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,100
298 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,390
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#894
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,712 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Violette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,712 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Violette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Violettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Violette was born before 2011 — so the typical Violette is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,157
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (1,758).

Is Violette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+71
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+88
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (298)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
1908

Spellings of Violette

Violette is not the most common spelling — Violet is, with 73.2% against Violette's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Violette is used

Across 2016–2025, Violette was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 6,724 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 33,333).

330 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 3,333
  2. 2California1 in 3,846
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 4,348
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 4,762
  5. 5Washington1 in 5,556
  6. 6Illinois1 in 5,882
  7. 7New York1 in 5,882
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 5,882

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Violette around the world

Where Violette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #180
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #403
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Violette

People whose public names include Violette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Violette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Violette. Linked forms have their own page here.

ViolettViolettaViolante

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Violette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#894
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 88
Best rank ever
#591
1908
Peak year
2025
298 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,403
Count in 2025
298

Names similar to Violette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Violette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Violette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmmieZadieArizonaEleanoraEvelinaLotusArieSalomeClementineZoraEverNoella

Sibling names for Violette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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