Violette

Where Violette comes from

Violette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Violette Leduc born
    French writer
  3. 1908
    Peak, #583
    41 babies named Violette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1921
    Violette Szabo born
    French-British SOE spy
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,950.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Violette Szabo · French-British SOE spy, 1921–1945
  • Violette Leduc · French writer, 1907–1972
  • Violette Morris · French athlete, 1893–1944
  • Violette Verdy · ballerina and ballet teacher, 1933–2016
  • Violette Wautier · Thai singer and actress, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.