Violet - wow what an unusual name

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I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe!!

We wanted a name for our DD that was a classic normal English name, easy to spell and pronounce. We went with Violet.

From the minute she arrived everyone from family, friends and the nurses/ midwives have been so surprised by our name choice and said how unusual it is, they’ve never heard of any Violet’s etc.

we are confused and feel like the reaction is akin to if we’d named her Larksong or something!

My grandmother was a Violet born in 1910.

Great choice! I have a Violet - she’s nearly 17. I still think it’s a really great name and still quite unusual.
We have met a few other younger Violets but it’s definitely still less common than Scarlett, Freya, Olivia, Poppy that there were multiples of in her school year.

My 2 year old is called Violet. We loved that it wasn't unheard of but not that popular. We've had so many compliments on it over the last 2 years so very happy we chose it. Definitely suits her too.

Violet is so popular 10 years ago. I know 5 violets (15, 13, 12, 10, 8)

This!

Everyone compliments it.

I don’t think it’s common. Then again there is sooooo much variety now most names are not that common.
It’s not really out there though.
Perhaps the midwives are most used to really out there names.

I've got a Violet. And it's not very unusual anymore...i think it's like number 40 on the top 100 list.

Really popular where I live.