Violet is the English name of the small purple flower and, by extension, the colour.
Violet was popular in the late Victorian era — part of the wave of botanical names (Rose, Lily, Daisy, Iris, Violet) that flourished in English-speaking countries from 1880 to 1920. It vanished mid-century and has returned beautifully in the 2010s, climbing into the U.S. top 25.
Violet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Violet reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.