Violette

Violette is the 9,891st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,116 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 95,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,116
Rank: 9,891st
How common: 1 in 95,900
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Violette described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Violette

Viola

Also a first name

Violette has been given to 6,403 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.