Girl name#235 of girl names
Violet
Pronounced V AY1 AH0 L IH0 T (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 145 years in use
How popular is Violet?
Violet is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 185,279 children — the 235th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 7,334 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- V AY1 AH0 L IH0 T · V AY1 L IH0 T
- Stress pattern:
- 100 · 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Violet
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Violet
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Violet?
- Violet ranks 235th among girls' names in US records, with 185,279 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 58,182.
- Is Violet a unisex name?
- No. Violet is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Violet most popular?
- 2024, when 7,334 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.