Violet (given name)

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Violet
Violets (Viola riviniana) - geograph.org.uk - 1272262.jpg
The name Violet is taken from the flower of the genus Viola.
Genderneutral
Origin
Meaning"violet"

Violet is a unisex though usually female given name 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 [1] and subsequently increased in popularity; it was the 69th most popular girls' name in 2013.[2]

The cognates in other languages are Viola, Violeta, Violetta, or Violette. These are common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country.

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Fictional characters[]

  • Violet, a character on the American sketch comedy TV series Don't Look Now
  • Violet Gamart, a character in Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop (1978)
  • Violet Gray, a Peanuts character
  • Violet Baudelaire, an A Series of Unfortunate Events character
  • Violet Beauregarde, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
  • Violet Bleakman, in Clifford the Big Red Dog
  • Violet Bridgerton, Dowager Lady Bridgerton, mother of the Bridgerton children in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series
  • Violet Evergarden, the protagonist of Kana Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden (2015)
  • Violet Finn, character from the American ABC soap opera, General Hospital
  • Violet Harmon, an American Horror Story: Murder House character
  • Violet Heaslip, a fictional female character in WordGirl
  • Violet Highway, an EastEnders character
  • Violet Parr, a The Incredibles character
  • Violet Song jat Shariff, an UltraViolet character
  • Violet Turner, a Private Practice character
  • Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, a character on Downton Abbey
  • Violet (comics), a DC Comics character
  • Lee Chaolan or Violet, a Tekken 4 character
  • Violet Weiler, a character from Fred Mustard Stewart's novel Ellis Island, also on the TV miniseries of the same name
  • Violet Wilson, character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street
  • Violet, the title character from the musical
  • Violet, one of the five main characters in the Winterborne Home series by Ally Carter
  • Violet née Walton, the sister of Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances"
  • Violet Sabrewing, a supporting character from DuckTales (2017)
  • Violet Gibson, a character in the book series Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
  • Daisy, Lily, and Violet, Kanto Gym Leaders in Pokémon and Misty's sisters.

References[]

  1. ^ 1990 US Census figures Archived 1997-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ US Social Security Administration Archived 2007-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
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