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How popular is the name Violet?
Births per year, rank history and how many Violets are alive today.
Violet (female) is currently the 42nd most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,010 babies given the name in 2024. The name peaked in 1904, when around 6,000 babies were given the name, the 17th most popular that year. Violet's popularity is double-peaked: strongest in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 27,000 babies have been named Violet in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Violet you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Violets born in England and Wales are between 9 and 74, and there are at least 30,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 9.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Violet.
How many babies are named Violet each year?
Where does Violet rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Violet most popular?
Violet peaked in 1904, when around 6,000 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Violet?
At least 30,000 people named Violet born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Violet?
Most living Violets are between 9 and 74; the most common age is about 4.
Is Violet becoming more or less popular?
Recovering: it has climbed back after a dip in the rankings.