It was definitely one of the more common names that I heard on baby girls but I also heard it pretty commonly on older kids up to age 10 or so.

Nameberry violet. Lavender ranks at number 503 on Nameberry. The rhythm of the musical instrument the association with the flower the trending Vi beginning and its leading role in Shakespeares Twelfth Night. NameViolet names pretty short though so I dont think that it has to have a nickname.

Violet is an English name that honours the violet flower. My cousins daughter is named violet. Margot is in second place no doubt inspired by actress Margot Robbie Credit.

Our detailed lists sorting all the boy names on Nameberry by language of origin are the perfect starting point. We call her nameVi name rhymes with my or nameVivi name again with the my sound. The violet is associated with modesty faithfulness and humility.

Many parents choose to honor their familys heritage by choosing a baby name from the same source others just love the style of boy names from a certain language or culture. Now that Violet is becoming more popular parents may start exploring same-but-different options such as the French Violette which would properly be pronounced with a long e sound in the first syllable and three syllables -- vee-oh-let -- as well as the operatic Italian Violetta. Viola is a female given name a variant of the given name Violet.

When I lived in the mid-west last year and was working as a childrens librarian I heard name_fVioletname_f everywhere. Latin in origin and meaning purple Violet was a wildly popular name in the 19th century before losing its steam around 1920. The name Viola is a girls name of Italian Latin origin meaning violet.

In the Bards gender-bending comedy of identity and disguise Viola is the appealing passionate heroine. Ancestry helps you understand your genealogy. Of course Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have the most well-known Violet but Dave Grohl Christina Milian and Poppy Montgomery named their girls Violet too.