girls:
171k births since 1880
#229 (96th percentile)
boys:
279 births since 1905
#4307 (6th percentile)
overall:
171.2k births since 1880
#439 (94th percentile)
The name Violet is the #439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 171,233 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #229 (96.0% percentile) for all time with 170,954 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,307 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 279 births since 1905.
Violet has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1905 for boys).
The name Violet has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Violet reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 98.4% percentile (ranked #16) with 3,626 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,626 births per million (ranked 98.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Violet is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #16 (98.4% percentile) with 3,626 births per million.
For boys, Violet reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #532) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Violet ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Violet".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Violet.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Violet", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Violet.
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Violet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.0% confident that Violet is pronounced as VAI-uh-luht, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAI-uh-liht, at 36.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V AY1 AH0 L AH0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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