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How popular is “Violet” in the USA?

Number of people named “Violet” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Violet” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Violet” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Violet” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Violet” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Violet” by birth year

This chart shows how “Violet” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 42 0.000208453 42 100%
1881 42 0.000217969 42 100%
1882 48 0.000216672 48 100%
1883 74 0.000341099 74 100%
1884 81 0.000332702 81 100%
1885 92 0.000381974 92 100%
1886 103 0.000403422 103 100%
1887 97 0.00039209 97 100%
1888 145 0.000484182 145 100%
1889 155 0.000536432 155 100%
1890 183 0.000607165 183 100%
1891 188 0.000655799 188 100%
1892 238 0.000711778 238 100%
1893 254 0.000781003 254 100%
1894 286 0.00084443 286 100%
1895 316 0.000900234 316 100%
1896 354 0.000990254 354 100%
1897 411 0.001184585 411 100%
1898 411 0.001077453 411 100%
1899 435 0.001282301 435 100%
1900 614 0.001363663 614 100%
1901 611 0.001766856 611 100%
1902 649 0.00167816 649 100%
1903 636 0.001668415 636 100%
1904 755 0.001871197 755 100%
1905 836 0.001972061 831 5 99%
1906 830 0.001937211 830 100%
1907 956 0.002054191 956 100%
1908 1017 0.002081248 1017 100%
1909 945 0.001848505 945 100%
1910 1037 0.001755512 1037 100%
1911 1183 0.001836164 1183 100%
1912 1541 0.001559619 1535 6 99%
1913 1751 0.001539869 1751 100%
1914 2061 0.001455155 2061 100%
1915 2760 0.0015062 2752 8 99%
1916 2927 0.001513117 2921 6 100%
1917 3034 0.001511897 3026 8 99%
1918 3302 0.00152088 3294 8 100%
1919 3607 0.00170928 3597 10 99%
1920 3707 0.001638349 3694 13 99%
1921 3480 0.00149068 3469 11 99%
1922 3202 0.001398769 3194 8 100%
1923 3284 0.001426288 3276 8 100%
1924 3231 0.001356645 3224 7 100%
1925 3038 0.001302017 3032 6 100%
1926 2917 0.001270523 2903 14 99%
1927 2704 0.00116584 2694 10 99%
1928 2338 0.001034084 2322 16 99%
1929 2220 0.001012699 2214 6 99%
1930 2108 0.000948145 2098 10 99%
1931 1760 0.000836348 1750 10 99%
1932 1701 0.000805668 1692 9 99%
1933 1525 0.000762711 1517 8 99%
1934 1375 0.000662071 1370 5 99%
1935 1280 0.00061247 1274 6 99%
1936 1158 0.00055738 1153 5 99%
1937 1139 0.000534574 1139 100%
1938 965 0.000436144 959 6 99%
1939 916 0.000415713 911 5 99%
1940 790 0.000343078 783 7 98%
1941 785 0.000322193 780 5 99%
1942 809 0.00029614 803 6 99%
1943 711 0.000251899 711 100%
1944 636 0.000236424 636 100%
1945 588 0.000221643 588 100%
1946 614 0.000192157 614 100%
1947 631 0.000175165 626 5 98%
1948 529 0.000153222 529 100%
1949 483 0.000138603 483 100%
1950 519 0.000148144 519 100%
1951 461 0.000125145 461 100%
1952 427 0.000112427 427 100%
1953 422 0.000109507 422 100%
1954 450 0.000113045 450 100%
1955 408 0.000101617 408 100%
1956 366 0.00008877 366 100%
1957 387 0.000092096 387 100%
1958 384 0.00009289 384 100%
1959 328 0.000078884 328 100%
1960 320 0.000077038 320 100%
1961 317 0.000076528 317 100%
1962 292 0.00007236 292 100%
1963 244 0.000061644 244 100%
1964 230 0.000059162 230 100%
1965 212 0.000058476 212 100%
1966 210 0.00006042 210 100%
1967 152 0.000044773 152 100%
1968 141 0.000041736 141 100%
1969 138 0.000039709 138 100%
1970 140 0.000038819 140 100%
1971 143 0.000041662 143 100%
1972 109 0.00003468 109 100%
1973 133 0.000044085 133 100%
1974 132 0.000043421 132 100%
1975 113 0.000037425 113 100%
1976 113 0.000037241 113 100%
1977 127 0.000039981 127 100%
1978 115 0.000036233 115 100%
1979 119 0.000035768 119 100%
1980 141 0.000040935 141 100%
1981 147 0.000042493 147 100%
1982 150 0.00004276 150 100%
1983 141 0.000040712 141 100%
1984 138 0.000039556 138 100%
1985 142 0.000039786 142 100%
1986 125 0.000035141 125 100%
1987 144 0.000039938 144 100%
1988 133 0.000035994 133 100%
1989 133 0.000034595 133 100%
1990 127 0.000032132 127 100%
1991 133 0.000034144 133 100%
1992 143 0.000037227 143 100%
1993 142 0.000037663 142 100%
1994 159 0.000042769 159 100%
1995 162 0.000044236 162 100%
1996 161 0.000044144 161 100%
1997 183 0.000050472 183 100%
1998 234 0.000063618 234 100%
1999 255 0.000069033 255 100%
2000 316 0.0000836 316 100%
2001 381 0.000101779 381 100%
2002 419 0.000112083 419 100%
2003 468 0.000123083 468 100%
2004 482 0.000126148 482 100%
2005 846 0.000220035 846 100%
2006 1268 0.00032051 1268 100%
2007 1538 0.000384723 1538 100%
2008 1830 0.00046557 1830 100%
2009 2262 0.000592119 2262 100%
2010 2575 0.000696748 2570 5 100%
2011 2902 0.000793375 2902 100%
2012 3283 0.00089764 3283 100%
2013 3941 0.001081009 3935 6 100%
2014 4200 0.001133182 4191 9 100%
2015 4822 0.001302922 4822 100%
2016 4881 0.001330445 4881 100%
2017 4739 0.001325151 4739 100%
2018 4834 0.001374898 4829 5 100%
2019 5422 0.001562116 5416 6 100%
2020 5128 0.001535064 5128 100%
2021 5521 0.001629599 5521 100%
2022 6477 0.001914496 6471 6 100%
2023 6369 0.001923474 6364 5 100%
2024 6977 0.002096139 6972 5 100%

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