Violette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French diminutive from Latin viola ‘violet flower’
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Violette is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 6.7Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 10Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)French diminutive from Latin viola ‘violet flower’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Violette, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Violette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #807 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 24K | Violette | 275 |
| US United States | — | 3,207 | 1 in 104K | 3.4K | Violette | 164 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 38 | Violette | 54 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Violette | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 2 | Violette | 52 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | 3 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Violette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, altération de Violet, de (Le) Violet, nom de plusieurs localités en différentes régions de France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In enm, alternative form of violet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, attributive form of violet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of violet:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, violet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Violette Morrisb. 1893FRFrench athlete (1893–1944)
- Violette Leducb. 1907FRFrench writer (1907–1972)
- Violette Szabob. 1921FRFrench-British SOE spy
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Violette mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive from Latin viola ‘violet flower’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Violette?
- In the etymology graph, Violeta, Viola and Violet are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Violette a male or female name?
- Violette is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Violette?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Violette in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled violette. After it come United States, Belgium, Lebanon and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Violette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,207 people named Violette in 2020, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Violette compared with other names?
- In France, Violette is the 807th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Violette?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/violetteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Violette” — the 807th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.