Violette Girl
How popular is Violette?
#893 girl name in 2025
298 baby girls were named Violette in the US in 2025, making it the 893rd most popular girl name.
Violette popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #893 for girls (▲ 68 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 298 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,215 in 2015, #981 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (298 girls) |
| Highest rank | #583 in 1908 |
| First recorded | 1886 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Violette counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Violet family of names ranked #19 for girls in 2025 (#23 the year before), with 7,953 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Violette is most popular
Babies named Violette per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 0.3 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.3 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- California: 0.3 per 1,000 (231 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (82 girls)
Violette by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | #1,036 |
| 1890s | 97 | #756 |
| 1900s | 272 | #583 |
| 1910s | 790 | #603 |
| 1920s | 730 | #671 |
| 1930s | 247 | #1,117 |
| 1940s | 93 | #2,286 |
| 1950s | 84 | #3,018 |
| 1960s | 22 | #5,295 |
| 1970s | 51 | #5,982 |
| 1980s | 74 | #4,343 |
| 1990s | 114 | #6,059 |
| 2000s | 480 | #2,005 |
| 2010s | 1,758 | #1,010 |
| 2020s | 1,574 | #893 |
Girl names about as popular as Violette
Questions
- Is Violette a boy or girl name?
- Violette is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Violette were girls.
- How popular is the name Violette?
- 298 baby girls were named Violette in the US in 2025, making it the 893rd most popular girl name.
- When was Violette most popular?
- Violette peaked in 2025, when 298 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #583 in 1908.
- How many people are named Violette?
- 6,403 babies have been named Violette in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,262 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Violette most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Violette was most common in Arizona, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.