Meaning not yet researched.
Violett: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 102 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,832 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,832 in 1899; #1,909 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Violett in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,909 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #1,832.
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Violett: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 102 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,832 in 1899 · most girls in one year: 102 (2025).
In 2025, 102 US girls were named Violett, making it the 1,909th most common girls’ name of the year, up 291 places from #2,200 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 87 girls named Violett in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,832, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 102, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,176 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Violett in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 1,012 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 479 babies named Violett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 718 US girls were named Violett; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,758 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Violett ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #994 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Violette (6,403 babies since 1880) and Violet (185,845 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Vylett are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vylett (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Violett in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #994 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,344 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,402 | #3,223 |
| New York | 9 | #1,520 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,737 | #2,705 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,702 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,101 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,622 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,437 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,325 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,986 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,577 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,065 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,010 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,314 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,576 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,581 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,859 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,751 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,832 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).