Viola Forename
5,024th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 207,781 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Viola Forename Definition:
A female name. Latin viola ‘violet’. The modern use of the name is due to Shakespeare’s heroine in Twelfth Night. One of his possible sources has the name Violetta, which he may have shortened. Viola, however, also occurs as a name in Gower’s Confessio Amantis.
Read More About This ForenameViola Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 63,495 | 1:5,710 | 770 |
| Germany | 100% | 23,969 | 1:4,033 | 460 |
| Kenya | 100% | 22,117 | 1:2,094 | 392 |
| Uganda | 100% | 17,317 | 1:2,365 | 339 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 12,450 | 1:1,239 | 221 |
| Russia | 100% | 5,086 | 1:28,359 | 687 |
| Poland | 100% | 4,100 | 1:9,275 | 435 |
| Hungary | 100% | 4,034 | 1:2,427 | 199 |
| Egypt | 96% | 3,687 | 1:24,926 | 1,785 |
| Italy | 100% | 3,377 | 1:18,082 | 823 |
| Philippines | 99% | 3,230 | 1:32,820 | 2,817 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,114 | 1:10,640 | 1,211 |
| Sweden | 100% | 2,993 | 1:3,294 | 429 |
| Jamaica | - | 2,946 | 1:979 | 255 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 2,890 | 1:1,837 | 206 |
| Liberia | 99% | 2,511 | 1:1,757 | 291 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,867 | 1:9,053 | 1,162 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1,821 | 1:29,947 | 3,653 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,785 | 1:21,180 | 2,091 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,697 | 1:104,634 | 5,811 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1,520 | 1:7,011 | 381 |
| Zambia | - | 1,433 | 1:11,064 | 1,185 |
| England | 100% | 1,146 | 1:48,519 | 2,313 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,088 | 1:114,103 | 2,727 |
| Haiti | 100% | 1,040 | 1:10,314 | 1,098 |
| Finland | 100% | 874 | 1:6,274 | 648 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 869 | 1:60,746 | 4,152 |
| Albania | 100% | 800 | 1:3,808 | 758 |
| Romania | 100% | 766 | 1:26,178 | 1,746 |
| Denmark | - | 734 | 1:7,697 | 729 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 679 | 1:45,341 | 1,852 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 636 | 1:16,401 | 1,643 |
| Malawi | 100% | 635 | 1:26,949 | 2,214 |
| Bahamas | - | 598 | 1:668 | 161 |
| Indonesia | 95% | 597 | 1:432,100 | 33,975 |
| Belarus | 99% | 584 | 1:16,237 | 308 |
| India | 100% | 450 | 1:2,699,729 | 127,467 |
| Ghana | 100% | 449 | 1:60,103 | 3,023 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 433 | 1:18,828 | 1,870 |
| China | - | 429 | 1:3,184,279 | 49,358 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 393 | 1:20,899 | 1,443 |
| Kazakhstan | 97% | 379 | 1:46,825 | 1,967 |
| Austria | 100% | 376 | 1:22,644 | 974 |
| Guyana | 100% | 345 | 1:2,212 | 429 |
| Georgia | 99% | 341 | 1:10,963 | 970 |
| Namibia | - | 309 | 1:7,781 | 1,004 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Greece | 100% | 207 | 1:52,824 | 1,807 |
| Norway | 100% | 193 | 1:26,592 | 1,425 |
| Colombia | 100% | 188 | 1:254,143 | 5,340 |
| Panama | 100% | 186 | 1:21,003 | 2,038 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 159 | 1:8,562 | 1,315 |
| New Zealand | - | 149 | 1:30,443 | 2,005 |
| Barbados | - | 147 | 1:1,971 | 435 |
| Spain | 100% | 144 | 1:323,125 | 5,154 |
| Latvia | 100% | 142 | 1:14,195 | 786 |
| Hong Kong | - | 135 | 1:57,428 | 2,566 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 134 | 1:227,238 | 12,639 |
| Thailand | 100% | 119 | 1:588,788 | 26,362 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 118 | 1:183,140 | 7,991 |
| Australia | - | 111 | 1:123,042 | 4,053 |
| Argentina | 100% | 110 | 1:388,848 | 3,313 |
| Belgium | 100% | 106 | 1:108,397 | 3,594 |
| Chile | 100% | 106 | 1:166,106 | 3,331 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 104 | 1:528 | 70 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 103 | 1:1,066 | 220 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 102 | 1:974 | 170 |
| Brazil | 100% | 98 | 1:2,186,083 | 44,746 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 93 | 1:64,713 | 2,769 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 92 | 1:1,694 | 424 |
| Bulgaria | 99% | 91 | 1:76,817 | 3,087 |
| Belize | 100% | 90 | 1:3,937 | 843 |
| France | 100% | 88 | 1:755,345 | 6,730 |
| Cuba | - | 76 | 1:151,402 | 2,489 |
| Botswana | 100% | 74 | 1:29,520 | 3,260 |
| Honduras | 100% | 74 | 1:119,155 | 3,544 |
| Peru | 100% | 68 | 1:467,521 | 8,547 |
| Israel | 99% | 66 | 1:127,317 | 4,908 |
| Suriname | 100% | 66 | 1:8,376 | 1,618 |
| Scotland | 100% | 65 | 1:82,313 | 2,093 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 65 | 1:464,645 | 12,775 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 60 | 1:1,860 | 354 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 58 | 1:10,016 | 1,008 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 57 | 1:15,282 | 1,123 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 51 | 1:4,773 | 557 |
| Estonia | 100% | 49 | 1:26,844 | 2,029 |
| French Polynesia | - | 49 | 1:5,671 | 903 |
| Mozambique | - | 49 | 1:555,987 | 1,346 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 49 | 1:235,735 | 640 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 43 | 1:168,298 | 3,039 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 38 | 1:1,439 | 300 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 38 | 1:4,679 | 797 |
| Portugal | - | 37 | 1:281,375 | 5,179 |
| Armenia | 100% | 34 | 1:85,846 | 2,360 |
| DR Congo | 60% | 34 | 1:2,171,400 | 51,388 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 34 | 1:210,353 | 13,097 |
| Aruba | - | 33 | 1:3,145 | 634 |
| Wales | 100% | 30 | 1:103,144 | 2,492 |
| Singapore | 100% | 28 | 1:224,538 | 8,753 |
| Transnistria | 83% | 27 | 1:17,616 | 451 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 24 | 1:401,789 | 9,111 |
| Bermuda | - | 24 | 1:2,701 | 544 |
| Ireland | 100% | 21 | 1:221,120 | 3,947 |
| Croatia | 100% | 21 | 1:200,813 | 3,495 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 86% | 21 | 1:284,442 | 11,652 |
| Moldova | 100% | 19 | 1:187,428 | 1,759 |
| Serbia | 100% | 18 | 1:396,984 | 4,513 |
| Guam | - | 17 | 1:9,450 | 1,317 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 17 | 1:144,633 | 3,357 |
| Grenada | 100% | 16 | 1:6,758 | 1,006 |
| Kosovo | - | 13 | 1:143,188 | 6,648 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 12 | 1:295,858 | 3,040 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Luxembourg | - | 9 | 1:62,672 | 2,160 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 9 | 1:2,641,076 | 57,947 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 8 | 1:1,657 | 292 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:3,906 | 755 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 8 | 1:7,662 | 1,302 |
| Jersey | - | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| Cambodia | 80% | 6 | 1:2,712,222 | 28,071 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 6 | 1:794,658 | 9,692 |
| Jordan | - | 6 | 1:1,471,129 | 7,316 |
| Macau | - | 6 | 1:101,368 | 818 |
| Turkey | 100% | 6 | 1:12,966,952 | 37,072 |
| Vietnam | - | 6 | 1:15,437,186 | 4,625 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 5 | 1:4,615,187 | 69,481 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 5 | 1:590,376 | 2,548 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 5 | 1:10,246 | 1,467 |
| Qatar | - | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Ukraine | - | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| Angola | 100% | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Ecuador | - | 4 | 1:4,431,730 | 16,276 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| New Caledonia | - | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| South Korea | - | 4 | 1:1,386,105 | 20,690 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 3 | 1:614,382 | 2,910 |
| Dominica | - | 3 | 1:25,157 | 718 |
| Japan | - | 3 | 1:42,662,019 | 63,122 |
| Lebanon | - | 3 | 1:1,875,857 | 11,580 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| San Marino | 100% | 3 | 1:10,973 | 542 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Benin | - | 2 | 1:5,287,922 | 61,990 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Vióla (2) are calculated separately.
Viola (76,906) may also be a surname.
Viola Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Latin viola ‘violet’. The modern use of the name is due to Shakespeare’s heroine in Twelfth Night. One of his possible sources has the name Violetta, which he may have shortened. Viola, however, also occurs as a name in Gower’s Confessio Amantis.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Originally, as still mainly, the Italian form of Violet, from Latin viola, the violet. It is, however, possible that, at first, in the form of Violante, it was a corruption of a Latin proper name, e. g. Valentinus (Yonge). It is much less general than, and rather superior socially to Vilet.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A female name derived from the Latin viola, a violet.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Latin (feminine) - fig. Modest grace.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Viola Forename Popularity
Viola Demographics
Average Viola Salary in
United States
$32,936 USD
Per year
Rank:
353,952 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0166709
Rank: 759 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
75.66%
Sample size: 41,726 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Viola Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Viola in the Russian language | ||
| Виола | viola | - |
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