The VIOLET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	835	27235	0	3
United States (1880 census)	283	14921	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+552	-12314	+N/A	-3
Other Countries
Australia	24	44923	0	1
United Kingdom	112	22887	0	2

Top States for VIOLET by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	167	8448	0.001	15
California	93	25794	0.000	3
Tennessee	93	6536	0.002	16
Illinois	41	33270	0.000	3
Texas	41	31649	0.000	2
Top States for VIOLET by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	22	7493	0.002	21
Tennessee	93	6536	0.002	16
Ohio	167	8448	0.001	15
Maine	13	10968	0.001	10
Maryland	39	14557	0.001	7

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called VIOLET live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called VIOLET represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called VIOLET in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a VIOLET by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of VIOLET

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: Nickname

Ethnic distribution of VIOLET in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	780	93.41
Black/African American	21	2.51
Mixed Race	19	2.28
White (Hispanic)	9	1.08
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the VIOLET surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to VIOLET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as VIOLET.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.