Violet (name)

Violet
The name Violet is taken from the flower of the genus Viola.
Gender	female
Origin
Meaning	"violet"
Other names
Nickname(s)	Vi, Vet, Let, Lettie

Violet is a given name for girls 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 69th most popular girls' name in 2013.^[2]

The cognates in other languages are Viola, Violeta, Violetta, or Violette. These are also common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country.

Name variants

• Violet English
• Violette French, English
• Violetta Italian, Greek, Belgian, Dutch, Russian
• Viola Latin, English, Italian, German, Swedish
• Violeta Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Albanian
• Виолетта (Violietta) Russian
• Βιολέττα (Violetta) or Βιολέτα (Violeta) Greek
• Wioleta, Wiola, Wioletta or Violetta Polish
• Ia Georgian

People with the name

• Violet Berlin (born 1968), television presenter
• Violet Blue (author), American writer and sex educator
• Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), British politician and diarist
• Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915), Irish writer
• Violet Gibson (1876–1956), attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini
• Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1948), British musician
• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), British writer
• Violet Hopson (1887–1973), British actress
• Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish writer
• Violet Jessop (1887–1971), survivor of three shipwrecks
• Violet Annie Lee (1909–1982), mother of the Kray twins
• Violet Loraine (1886–1956), English actress and singer
• Violet MacMillan (1887–1953), American actress
• Violet Markham (1872–1959), British writer and social reformer
• Violet Mersereau (1892–1975), American actress
• Violet Oakley (1874–1961), American artist
• Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), English writer and socialite
• Violet Vanbrugh (1867–1942), English actress
• Violet Wilkey (1903–1976), American child actress

Fictional

• Violet Gray, a Peanuts character
• Violet Baudelaire, an A Series of Unfortunate Events character
• Violet Beauregarde, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
• Violet Harmon, an American Horror Story: Murder House character
• Violet Parr, a The Incredibles character
• Violet Song jat Shariff, an UltraViolet character
• Violet Turner, a Private Practice character
• Violet Potato, sister of the Monster Allergy character Elena Potato
• Violet Nightshade, a MySims character
• Violet Heaslip, a WordGirl character
• Violet Elizabeth Bott, a Just William character
• Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, a character on Downton Abbey
• Violet, a character from the movie Pretty Baby
• Violet (comics), a DC Comics character
• Lee Chaolan or Violet, a Tekken 4 character
• Violet, a Bound character
• Violet, a Fifi and the Flowertots character
• Violet Venable, a Suddenly Last Summer character
• Violet, the title character from the musical.

See also

• Violetta (disambiguation)
• Violet (disambiguation)
• Violeta (disambiguation)
• Viola (disambiguation)
• Violette (disambiguation)

References

1. 1990 US Census figures
2. US Social Security Administration