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{{Infobox given name
'''Violet''' is a ] for girls. The name comes from the ] flower. As with other such names its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were very commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so. The name ''Violet'' was the 88th most frequent girl's given name in 1900, dropping below position 1000 by 1960. In 1990, the name appeared again in the top 1000 at position 289 <ref></ref> and its popularity has increased since.<ref></ref>
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| image= File:White Violet- Candor, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes MET DPB882869.jpg
| caption=A white violet is said to signify candor in the ].
| pronunciation={{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|aɪ|ə|l|ə|t}}
| gender = Female
| meaning = "]"
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'''Violet''' is a female ] which comes from the ]. 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<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970321025120/http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.female.first |date=1997-03-21 }}</ref> and subsequently increased in popularity. It was the 20th most used name for newborn American girls in 2022.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112032623/http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ |date=2007-11-12 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/popularity_increase.html
| title = Names that increased in popularity from 2021 to 2022
| last =
| first =
| date = 12 May 2023
| website = ssa.gov
| publisher = United States Social Security Administration
| access-date = 12 May 2023
| quote = }} </ref> It rose rapidly in popularity for American girls born that year, one of several fashionable names that contain a letter ].<ref> {{cite web
| url= https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-a-look-at-the-top-baby-names-of-2022/article_b2962498-f592-11ed-9126-57cfc35db679.html
| title= Evans: A Look at the Top Baby Names of 2022
| last= Evans
| first= Cleveland Kent
| date= 22 May 2023
| website= omaha.com
| publisher= Omaha World Herald
| access-date= 11 December 2023
| quote = }}</ref> In 2022, it was the 27th most popular name given to girls in Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710014701|title=Table 17-10-0147-01 First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators (Number)|website=Statistics Canada|access-date=2024-08-25}}</ref>

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==
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*Violet – ]
*] – ], ]
*] – ], ], ]
*] – ], ], ], ], ]
*] – ], ], ], ], ], ]
*Виолета / Violeta – ]
*Виолета (Violeta) – ]
*Віолетта (Violetta) or Віолета (Violeta) - ]
*Виолетта (Violetta) or Виолета (Violeta) – ]
*Βιολέττα (Violetta) or Βιολέτα (Violeta) – ]
*Wioleta, Wiola, Wioletta or Violetta – ]
*Ia - ]

==People==
* ] (1886–1987), British suffragette who was force-fed
*] (1908–1969), Indian lawyer, politician and deputy chair of the Rajya Sabha, and Indian National Congress member
* ] (1913–2000), Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist
* ] (1889–1965), English aristocrat
* ] (1895–1964), English wife of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
* ] (1922–2010), American illustrator
* ] (born 1943), Ugandan writer and editor
* ] (born 1988), Russian-born American Internet personality
* ] (born 1968), British television presenter, producer and scriptwriter
* ] (1900–1962), owner of the Chicago / St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL)
* ], American writer and sex educator
* ] (1900–2017), Jamaican supercentenarian
* ] (1878–1951), English artist
* ] (1887–1969), British politician and diarist
* ] (1862–1919), English actress and singer
* ] (1898–1983), British actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist
* ], American drag queen, burlesque dancer, recording artist, TV personality, and model
* ] (1916–2003), British pair skater
* ] (1878–1956), American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist
* ] (1896–1991), wife of British colonial administrator H. R. P. Dickson
* ] (1900–1960), British artist
* ] (1869–1945), British philanthropist and supporter of local government
* ], Turkish volleyball player and manager
* ] (died 1969), English badminton player
* ] (1881–1946), British actress and singer
* ], pen name of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (1843–1905), British poet, writer, and ambassadress
* ] (1888–1969), English film actress
* ] (1876–1956), Irish aristocrat, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini
* ] (1898–1996), Canadian painter and educator
* ] (1872–1948), British musician
* ] (1890–1967), English stage and film actress
* ] (1919–1988), American baseball player
* ] (1949–2014), photographer who lived and worked in Australia, the US, and the UK
* ] (1895–1981), English stage and screen actress
* ] (1882–1935), Scottish-born golfer and partner of poet Elsa Gidlow
* ] (1865–1929), British peer
* ] (born 1973), American painter
* ] (1887–1973), British actress
* ] (1862–1942), British writer
* ] (1925–2004), Scottish geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics
* ] (1863–1946), Scottish writer
* ] (1887–1971), Argentine survivor of three shipwrecks
* ] (1883–1958), Irish suffragette
* ], former General Secretary of the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda, and sister of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
* ] (1917–2007), Japanese American poet, composer, and translator of haiku
* ] (1886–1961), British stage and film actress
* ] (1929–1982), Canadian lawyer
* ] (1894–1973), American silent film actress
* ] (1908–1984), American silent film actress
* Violet Annie Lee (1909–1982), mother of the ]
* ] (1886–1956), English actress and singer
* ] (1887–1953), American actress
* ] (born 1993), Kenyan volleyball player
* ] (1856–1937), British artist and noblewoman
* ] (1872–1959), British writer and social reformer
* ] (1887–1971), New Zealand writer, poet, and spiritualist
* ] (1855–1935), British stage performer, actress-manager, and theatre owner
* ] (1892–1975), American stage and film actress
* ] (1872–1958), English Edwardian society lady, and editor of the political monthly, National Review
* ] (1919–2014), Canadian aviator
* ] (1867–1945), British humanitarian and activist
* ], Australian soprano
* ] (1875–1943), classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill
* ] (1876–1967), English author
* ], Jamaican politician
* ] (1862–1915), Irish writer
* ] (1927–2021), American child therapist and author
* ] (1874–1961), American artist
* ], Nigerian track and field athlete
* ] (1911–1999), English athlete
* ] (1902–1998), British tennis and hockey player
* ] (born 1964), American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA
* ] (1922–2012), English puppeteer and author
* ] (1889–1972), English long-distance runner
* ] (1871–1955), English tennis player
* ] (1873–1962), South Australian medical doctor
* ] (1912–2002), British writer and critic
* ] (1888–1978), founder of the Berkeley Women's Gymnasium
* ] (1885–1967), New Zealand journalist and welfare worker
* ] (1886–1970), American dancer
* ] (1884–1949), Canadian dietitian
* ], Welsh singer-songwriter
* ] (born 1935), the first Miss Malaya
* ], American female jockey
* ] (1872–1951), Australian artist
* ] (1874–1922), suffragette, nurse, pacifist, conscientious objector supporter, famine relief worker, and Quaker
* ] (1894–1972), English writer and socialite
* ] (1862–1936), Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist
* ] (1882–1966), British entrepreneur and campaigner best known for activities against the death penalty
* ] (1867–1942), English actress
* ] (1886–1979), Australian painter and etcher
* ] (1905–1996), New Zealand swimmer
* ] (born 1978), Netherlands international cricketer
* ] (1915–1999), English track and field athlete
* ] (1887–1960), British singer
*] (1873–1952), English-born New Zealand artist
* ] (1903–1976), American child actress
* ] (1928–1989), British writer
* ] (1899–2012), British supercentenarian
* ] (born 1977), Malaysian lawyer and politician

== Fictional characters ==
* Violet, on the American sketch comedy TV series '']''
* ], Kanto Gym Leaders in '']'' and ] sisters
* Violet, one of the Thea Sisters from ] in '']''
* ], a DC Comics character
* Violet, a character from '']''
* Violet, the title character from the ]
* Violet, one of the five main characters in the ''Winterborne Home'' series by ]
* ] or Violet, a '']'' character
* ], Dowager Countess of Grantham, a character on ''Downton Abbey''
* Violet Gamart, in Penelope Fitzgerald's '']'' (1978)
* Violet Gibson, in the book series ''Spy School'' by ]
* ], a ''Peanuts'' character
* ], an ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' character
* ], a ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' character
* Violet Bridgerton, Dowager Lady Bridgerton, mother of the Bridgerton children in Julia Quinn's '']'' series
* ], the protagonist of Kana Akatsuki's '']'' (2015)
* Violet Finn, from the American ] soap opera, '']''
* ], an ''American Horror Story: Murder House'' character
* ], an ''EastEnders'' character
* ], a ''The Incredibles'' character
* ], an ''UltraViolet'' character
* ], a ''Private Practice'' character
* Violet Weiler, from ]'s novel ], also on the ]
* ], from the British ITV soap opera, ''Coronation Street''
* Violet Mikami, a paramedic on the NBC television series, ]
*] (born Violet), from the video game ], also on the TV Series ]

==Equivalents from other cultures==
The floral-inspired name is present in other cultures. Examples include:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog-en.namepedia.org/2021/04/names-inspired-by-spring-flowers/|title=Names Inspired by Spring Flowers|website=NamepediA Blog|date=2 April 2021 }}</ref>
*] (Japanese)
*Calfuray (Mapuche)
*Ibolya (Hungarian)
*Viola (Italian; diminutive Violetta)
*Violeta (Romanian)
*Wiola (Polish; variants Wioleta, Wioletta)
*Sigal (Hebrew)


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Violet
A white violet is said to signify candor in the language of flowers.
Pronunciation/ˈvaɪələt/
GenderFemale
Origin
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 and subsequently increased in popularity. It was the 20th most used name for newborn American girls in 2022. It rose rapidly in popularity for American girls born that year, one of several fashionable names that contain a letter v. In 2022, it was the 27th most popular name given to girls in Canada.

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

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People

Fictional characters

Equivalents from other cultures

The floral-inspired name is present in other cultures. Examples include:

  • Sumire (Japanese)
  • Calfuray (Mapuche)
  • Ibolya (Hungarian)
  • Viola (Italian; diminutive Violetta)
  • Violeta (Romanian)
  • Wiola (Polish; variants Wioleta, Wioletta)
  • Sigal (Hebrew)

References

  1. 1990 US Census figures Archived 1997-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. US Social Security Administration Archived 2007-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Names that increased in popularity from 2021 to 2022". ssa.gov. United States Social Security Administration. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  4. Evans, Cleveland Kent (22 May 2023). "Evans: A Look at the Top Baby Names of 2022". omaha.com. Omaha World Herald. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  5. "Table 17-10-0147-01 First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators (Number)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  6. "Names Inspired by Spring Flowers". NamepediA Blog. 2 April 2021.
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