Violet


Gender:
Origin: Latin
138 famous people named Violet found on Wikipedia.
141924 female, 262 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 43-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 43-th in year 2018
Used in: English

Meanings

Violet is a given name for girls 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 and subsequently increased in popularity; it was the 69th most popular girls' name in 2013.
The cognates in other languages are Viola, Violeta, Violetta, or Violette. These are also common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country.

Small wild plant with purplish-blue flowers, c. 1300, from Old French violete (12c.), diminutive of viole "violet," from Latin viola "the violet, a violet color," cognate with Greek ion (see iodine), probably from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language. The color sense (late 14c.) developed from the flower.

Violet, purple.

Famous People: 138 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Violet Brown 1900 Jamaican supercentenarian
2 Violet Jessop 1887 Titianic crew member
3 Violet Chachki 1992
4 Violet Turner
5 Violet Bonham Carter 1887 Politician
6 Tessa Violet 1990 American singer
7 Violet Carson 1898 British actress and singer
8 Violet Blue 2000 American writer
9 Violet Trefusis 1894 English writer and socialite
10 Violet Palmer 1964 American basketball official
11 Laurent Violet 1965 French actor
12 Violet Gray Fictional character
13 Violet Gibson 1876 Aristocrat; failed assassin
14 Violet Berlin 1968 TV and radio broadcaster
15 Violet Wilson
16 Violet Wood 1899 English supercentenarian
17 Violet Benson 1988
18 Violet Oakley 1874 American artist
19 Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland 1856 British artist and noblewoman
20 Violet Coulson Wife of Tunku Abdul Rahman
21 Violet Fane 1843 British writer
22 Violet Bidwill Wolfner 1900 American football franchise owner
23 Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee 1895 Wife of Prime Minister
24 Violet Alva 1908 Indian politician
25 Violet Van der Elst 1882 British writer
26 Violet Archer 1913 Canadian classical music composer
27 Violet Gordon-Woodhouse 1872 British harpsichordist and clavichordist
28 Arlene Violet 1943 Rhode Island attorney general
29 Violet Hunt 1862 British writer
30 Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever 1889 English baroness and socialite
31 Marcel Violet 1886 French engineer
32 Violet Florence Martin 1862 Irish writer
33 Violet Jacob 1863 Scottish writer
34 Violet Winspear 1928 British novelist
35 Violet MacMillan 1887 American actress
36 Violet Wilkey 1903 Actress
37 Violet Hopson 1887 British actress
38 Violet Tweedale 1862 Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist
39 Violet Oaklander 1927
40 Violet Cripps, Baroness Parmoor 1891 British noble
41 Violet Markham 1872 British politician
42 Violet Kajubiri Ugandan activist
43 Violet Dickson 1896 English botanist, writer, and Orientalist
44 Violet Piercy 1889 British marathon runner
45 Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner 1872 British noble
46 Violet Vanbrugh 1867 British actress
47 Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley 1895 British politician
48 Violet Farebrother 1888 Actress
49 Violet Romer 1886 American actor-soncer
50 Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis 1865 British countess
51 Violet Loraine 1886 British actor and singer
52 Violet Heming 1895 British actress
53 Violet Cowden 1916 Congressional Gold Medal recipient
54 Violet Powell 1912 British biographer
55 Violet Mersereau 1892 Actress
56 Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett 1867 British humanitarian and philanthropist
57 Bernard Violet French journalist
58 Violet La Plante 1908 American child actress; silent film actress
59 Violet Barclay 1922 American illustrator
60 Violet Needham 1876 British writer
61 Violet Rose Olney 1911 British athlete
62 Violet Cameron 1862 English actress and singer
63 Violet Falkenburg 1948 Dutch radio host, television presenter, columnist and journalist
64 Violet Kazue de Cristoforo 1917 American writer
65 Violet Teague 1872 Australian artist
66 Violet Skies British singer
67 Violet Melnotte 1856 British actress
68 Violet Douglas-Pennant 1869 British philanthopist
69 Violet Webb 1915 British athlete
70 Gustave Violet 1873 French sculptor
71 Violet King Henry 1929 Canadian lawyer
72 Violet Barungi 1943 Ugandan writer
73 Violet Englefield 1881 British actress
74 Violet Yong Wui Wui 1977
75 Violet Duca Former Turkish female volleyball player
76 Violet Clifton 1883 English writer
77 Lady Violet 1972 Italian singer
78 Violet Sleigh
79 Violet Tillard 1874 British suffragist
80 Violet Barbour 1884 American historian
81 Violet Barasa 1975 Kenyan volleyball player
82 Violet Walrond 1905 New Zealand swimmer
83 Violet Cressy-Marcks 1895 Facts
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85 Violet Knights 1894 American actress
86 Violet Wattenberg 1978 Cricketer
87 Violet Graham 1890 British actress
88 Violet Parr
89 Violet Brunton 1878 British artist
90 Violet Myers 1875
91 Violet L. Fisher 1939 American bishop
92 Violet Kemble-Cooper 1886 British actress
93 Violet Cliff 1916 Pair figure skater
94 Augustin Violet 1799 German educationist
95 Virginia Pinky Smith American jockey
96 Violet Millicent Pinckney 1871 British tennis player
97 Violet Brand 1929 British educator
98 Violet Mathieson 1982 British actress
99 Violet Hopkins American artist
100 Jean-Léonard Violet 1791 French property developer and politician (1791-1881)
101 Violet McBride 1954 Olympic field hockey player
102 Violet Stanger Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada
103 Violet Synge Girl Guide Chief Commissioner for England
104 Violet Elton 1895 Badminton player
105 Édouard-Émile Violet 1880 French actor
106 Violet May Cottrell 1887 Writer, poet, spiritualist
107 Violet Mount Singer
108 Violet Alford 1881 British ethnomusicologist
109 Violet Neilson Jamaican politician
110 Émile Violet 1877
111 Violet McNaughton 1879 Canadian journalist and women's rights activist
112 Violet M. Digby 1900 British artist and painter (1900-1960)
113 Violet Schiff 1874
114 Violet Radcliffe 1908 American actress
115 Violet Hamilton 1949
116 Violet Luv 1975 American pornographic actress
117 Violet Wegnerová 1887
118 Violet Augusta Roche 1885 Journalist, welfare worker
119 Violet Plummer 1873
120 Violet Owen 1902
121 Frans Violet 1954 Belgian conductor, trumpeter and musicologist
122 Violet Banda
123 Violet Alberta Jessie Burns 1893 Journalist, political activist
124 Pierre-Noël Violet 1749 Flemish miniature painter
125 Violet lindsell 1887 British painter
126 Violet Storm 1972 Pornographic film actor
127 Violet Odogwu 1942 Nigerian long jumper, hurdler, high jumper and sprinter
128 Violet Makuto 1992
129 Violet Baddeley 1902 Badminton player
130 Violet Bird 1905 American actor (1905-1987)
131 Violet Philpott 1922 English puppeteer and author
132 Violet Pierceu French athletics competitor
133 Bruno Violet 1871
134 Violet Patterson 1928
135 Violet Molitor 1899 Swedish actress
136 Violet Henry-Anderson
137 Violet Ådahl 1910
138 Violet Hackbarth 1919