Violet, a popular flower name that also doubles as a color name, comes from the Latin word viola and English word violet, referring to the purple flower. The common blue violet has heart-shaped leaves and purple or white flowers. Violet was a top-100 girl's name every year between 1901 and 1926, but slowly started fading away before falling out of the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 in the 1970s and 1980s. It made its return in 1998, cracked the top-100 in 2012 and has now been a top-50 girl's name every year since 2015. Several celebrities are helping to keep this name going by giving it to their daughters, including actors Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and former 'N Sync singer Lance Bass. It's also a popular middle name, evidenced by actress Hilary Duff's daughter, Bankes Violet, and singer James Bay's daughter, Ada Violet.
