Violett
Violett was given to 102 girls in 2025, #1,909 among girls’ names; 1,012 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Violett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Violett?
#1,909 among girls’ names, 2025
Violett rose from #3,176 in 2015 to #1,909 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.7 to 63.5 per million.
102 babies in 2025, the peak
Violett peaked in 2025, when 102 girls were given it, #1,909 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 87 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,909 | 63.5 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,200 | 53.7 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,032 | 60.5 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,488 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,033 | 33.5 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,628 | 40.2 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,507 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,707 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,433 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,932 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,176 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,712 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,136 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,700 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,098 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,619 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,433 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,319 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,982 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,572 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,058 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,004 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,307 | 2.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,574 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,579 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,857 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,749 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,826 | 4.1 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,385 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,243 | 6.1 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,831 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Violett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Violett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Violett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Violett, and how old are they?
An estimated 964 Americans named Violett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Violett (466 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Violett born?
The states with the most babies named Violett are Texas, California and New York, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,402 | 1.0× |
| California | 13 | #1,737 | 1.2× |
| New York | 9 | #1,520 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,344 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #994 | 0.3× |
Where Violett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Violett is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Violett with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Violett?
Violett is a less common spelling of Violet: SSA has recorded 1,012 Violett and 185,845 Violet since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 187,010 babies since 1880, Violett is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 7,655 babies (1.3%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Violett
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Violett and names like it
- Compare Violett and VioletBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sViolett peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Violett since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Violett.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Violett alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.