Violet Meaning, Origin, Celebrities, Graphic Designs

Name: Violet

Pronunciation: vy-oh-lit

Origin: Latin

Meaning: Purple; Flower

Gender: girl’s name, feminine name

Story of the name Violet 🔗

A beautiful name that evokes imagery of flowers, Violet comes from the Latin viola and means “purple”. Primarily a girl’s name, Violet is a wonderful option if you wish to choose a botanical name as beloved as Rose, Daisy, and Lily.

Common Nicknames for Violet 🔗

• Vi
• Letty
• Lottie
• Violette

Variant forms of Violet 🔗

• Violet – English
• Violette – French, English
• Violetta – Italian, Belgian, Dutch
• Viola – Latin, English, Italian, German, Swedish
• Violeta – Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Lithuanian, Albanian
• Виолета / Violeta – Serbian
• Виолета (Violeta) – Bulgarian
• Віолетта (Violetta) or Віолета (Violeta) - Ukrainian
• Виолетта (Violetta) or Виолета (Violeta) – Russian
• Βιολέττα (Violetta) or Βιολέτα (Violeta) – Greek
• Wioleta, Wiola, Wioletta or Violetta – Polish
• Ia - Hebrew

Graphic designs for Violet 🔗

Violet name is written with roses and flowers:

Famous women named Violet 🔗

• Violet Aitken (1886–1987), British suffragette who was force-fed
• Violet Alva (1908–1969), Indian lawyer, politician and deputy chair of the Rajya Sabha, and Indian National Congress member
• Violet Archer (1913–2000), Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist
• Violet Astor (1889–1965), English aristocrat
• Violet Attlee (1895–1964), English wife of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
• Violet Barclay (1922–2010), American illustrator
• Violet Barungi (born 1943), Ugandan writer and editor
• Violet Benson (born 1988), Russian-born American Internet personality
• Violet Berlin (born 1968), British television presenter, producer and scriptwriter
• Violet Bidwill Wolfner (1900–1962), owner of the Chicago / St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL)
• Violet Blue (author), American writer and sex educator
• Violet Brown (1900–2017), Jamaican supercentenarian
• Violet Brunton (1878–1951), English artist
• Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), British politician and diarist
• Violet Cameron (1862–1919), English actress and singer
• Violet Carson (1898–1983), British actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist
• Violet Chachki, American drag queen, burlesque dancer, recording artist, TV personality, and model
• Violet Cliff (1916–2003), British pair skater
• Violet Dandridge (1878–1956), American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist
• Violet Dickson (1896–1991), wife of British colonial administrator H. R. P. Dickson
• Violet M. Digby (1900–1960), British artist
• Violet Douglas-Pennant (1869–1945), British philanthropist and supporter of local government
• Violet Duca, Turkish volleyball player and manager
• Violet Elton (died 1969), English badminton player
• Violet Englefield (1881–1946), British actress and singer
• Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (1843–1905), British poet, writer, and ambassadress
• Violet Farebrother (1888–1969), English film actress
• Violet Gibson (1876–1956), Irish aristocrat, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini
• Violet Gillett (1898–1996), Canadian painter and educator
• Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1948), British musician
• Violet Graham (1890–1967), English stage and film actress
• Violet Hackbarth (1919–1988), American baseball player
• Violet Hamilton (1949–2014), photographer who lived and worked in Australia, the US, and the UK
• Violet Heming (1895–1981), English stage and screen actress
• Violet Henry-Anderson (1882–1935), Scottish-born golfer and partner of poet Elsa Gidlow
• Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis (1865–1929), British peer
• Violet Hopkins (born 1973), American painter
• Violet Hopson (1887–1973), British actress
• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), British writer
• Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton (1925–2004), Scottish geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics
• Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish writer
• Violet Jessop (1887–1971), Argentine survivor of three shipwrecks
• Violet Key Jones (1883–1958), Irish suffragette
• Violet Kajubiri, former General Secretary of the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda, and sister of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
• Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (1917–2007), Japanese American poet, composer, and translator of haiku
• Violet Kemble-Cooper (1886–1961), British stage and film actress
• Violet King Henry (1929–1982), Canadian lawyer
• Violet Knights (1894–1973), American silent film actress
• Violet La Plante (1908–1984), American silent film actress
• Violet Annie Lee (1909–1982), mother of the Kray twins
• Violet Loraine (1886–1956), English actress and singer
• Violet MacMillan (1887–1953), American actress
• Violet Makuto (born 1993), Kenyan volleyball player
• Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856–1937), British artist and noblewoman
• Violet Markham (1872–1959), British writer and social reformer
• Violet May Cottrell (1887–1971), New Zealand writer, poet, and spiritualist
• Violet Melnotte (1855–1935), British stage performer, actress-manager, and theatre owner
• Violet Mersereau (1892–1975), American stage and film actress
• Violet Milner, Viscountess Milner (1872–1958), English Edwardian society lady, and editor of the political monthly, National Review
• Violet Milstead (1919–2014), Canadian aviator
• Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett (1867–1945), British humanitarian and activist
• Violet Mount, Australian soprano
• Violet Myers (1875–1943), classical singer and the wife of British diplomat William Algernon Churchill
• Violet Needham (1876–1967), English author
• Violet Neilson, Jamaican politician
• Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915), Irish writer
• Violet Oaklander (1927–2021), American child therapist and author
• Violet Oakley (1874–1961), American artist
• Violet Odogwu, Nigerian track and field athlete
• Violet Olney (1911–1999), English athlete
• Violet Owen (1902–1998), British tennis and hockey player
• Violet Palmer (born 1964), American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA
• Violet Philpott (1922–2012), English puppeteer and author
• Violet Piercy (1889–1972), English long-distance runner
• Violet Pinckney (1871–1955), English tennis player
• Violet Plummer (1873–1962), South Australian medical doctor
• Violet Powell (1912–2002), British writer and critic
• Violet Richardson Ward (1888–1978), founder of the Berkeley Women’s Gymnasium
• Violet Roche (1885–1967), New Zealand journalist and welfare worker
• Violet Romer (1886–1970), American dancer
• Violet Ryley (1884–1949), Canadian dietitian
• Violet Skies, Welsh singer-songwriter
• Violet Sleigh (born 1935), the first Miss Malaya
• Violet Smith, American female jockey
• Violet Teague (1872–1951), Australian artist
• Violet Tillard (1874–1922), suffragette, nurse, pacifist, conscientious objector supporter, famine relief worker, and Quaker
• Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), English writer and socialite
• Violet Tweedale (1862–1936), Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist
• Violet Van der Elst (1882–1966), British entrepreneur and campaigner best known for activities against the death penalty
• Violet Vanbrugh (1867–1942), English actress
• Violet Vimpany (1886–1979), Australian painter and etcher
• Violet Walrond (1905–1996), New Zealand swimmer
• Violet Wattenberg (born 1978), Netherlands international cricketer
• Violet Webb (1915–1999), English track and field athlete
• Violet Wegner (1887–1960), British singer
• Violet Whiteman (1873–1952), English-born New Zealand artist
• Violet Wilkey (1903–1976), American child actress
• Violet Winspear (1928–1989), British writer
• Violet Wood (1899–2012), British supercentenarian
• Violet Yong Wui Wui (born 1977), Malaysian lawyer and politician

Similar Names 🔗

• Violette
• Jayla
• Wyatt
• Collette