Violet
1.01k
Babies in 2024
+34%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 1.06k
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Violet
Violet is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #42 for girls born in 2024 with 1,010 babies registered in England & Wales.
Violet reached its peak in 2021, when 1,057 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #45 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 14,594 girls have been officially registered with the name Violet in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 10,558 girls were registered with the name, starting from 754 in 2014 and ending at 1,010 in 2024.