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Vyolette

Girls' name

Violet, through Violet

Vyolette has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Vyolette, 2022

1 in 677,000

Vyolette 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vyolette: meaning, origin, and history

Violet, through Violet

English

What Vyolette means

Vyolette belongs to the name family reached through Vyolette → Violet → Violette. Its meaning is “violet”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vyolette is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Violet and Violette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 girls were recorded with the name Vyolette between 1919 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,791 in 1919.

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 Vyolette?

Vyolette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vyolette 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 2022 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vyolette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vyolettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vyolette was born before 2018 — so the typical Vyolette is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
71.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 71.8% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Vyolette 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2019 (8)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,791
1919

Spellings of Vyolette

Vyolette is not the most common spelling — Colette is, with 70.9% against Vyolette's 0.10%.

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.

Vyolette around the world

Where Vyolette 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.

  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vyolette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,791
1919
Peak year
2019
8 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vyolette

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

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Sibling names for Vyolette

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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