Violet (given name)

Violet is a unisex though usually 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 [1] and subsequently increased in popularity; it was the 69th most popular girls' name in 2013.[2]

Violet
The name Violet is taken from the flower of the genus Viola.
Genderneutral
Origin
Meaning"violet"

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

People with the name

Fictional characters
  • Violet Gamart, a character in Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop (1978)
  • Violet Gray, a Peanuts character
  • Violet Baudelaire, an A Series of Unfortunate Events character
  • Violet Beauregarde, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
  • Violet Bridgerton, Dowager Lady Bridgerton, mother of the Bridgerton children in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series
  • Violet Evergarden, the protagonist of Kana Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden (2015)
  • Violet Harmon, an American Horror Story: Murder House character
  • Violet Parr, a The Incredibles character
  • Violet Parr, a Mean Girls 2 character
  • Violet Song jat Shariff, an UltraViolet character
  • Violet Turner, a Private Practice character
  • Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, a character on Downton Abbey
  • Violet (comics), a DC Comics character
  • Lee Chaolan or Violet, a Tekken 4 character
  • Violet Weiler, a character from Fred Mustard Stewart's novel Ellis Island, also on the TV miniseries of the same name
  • Violet Wilson, character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street
  • Violet, the title character from the musical
  • Violet, one of the five main characters in Winterborne Home For Vengeance and Valor
  • Violet née Walton, the sister of Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances"

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
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