Violetta
From the Latin for "little violet". Around 20,000 Polish women carry it, but you'd have to look hard to meet one: fewer than a dozen girls were given it last year, and it goes only to girls.
Violetta Pronunciation
What Violetta means
Where Violetta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Violetta grows from the Latin viola, the violet, with the diminutive ending -etta softening it to "little violet." The flower gave Italy a favorite name, and opera carried it further. Verdi built La Traviata around a heroine called Violetta Valéry, and since the premiere in 1853 the role has kept the name within earshot of anyone who loves the stage.
In Poland the name settled into spellings of its own. Wioletta and Wioleta trade the Latin v for a w, while Wiola trims the whole thing down to two syllables. A teacher calling the class register could find all three in a single row, three girls answering to one Latin flower.
The violet is a small thing. Old flower lore tied it to modesty, though the plain sense of the name stays literal and low to the ground: a little flower, nothing grander. Name a daughter Violetta and you have named her for the fiołek.
How many people are named Violetta
1 in 1091 women in Poland is named Violetta. 20,663 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #271 among female names.
Violetta's popularity over time
11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #677 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2019. Still the #271 name among living women, even as it slips to #677 among newborns.
Where Violetta is most popular
Violetta is most popular in Lesser Poland, 118% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+101%) and Lower Silesian (+57%). It is least common in Silesian, 46% below average.
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Lesser Poland8 girls born+118%
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Greater Poland7 girls born+101%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+57%
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Masovian9 girls born+57%
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Łódź3 girls born+46%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born+2%
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Silesian2 girls born−46%
Violetta as a middle name
Violetta is a first name for 20,663 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4,884, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 145th, between Romana (5,184) and Waleria (4,801).
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#143 Iga5,232
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#144 Romana5,184
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#145 Violetta4,884
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#146 Waleria4,801
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#147 Adriana4,764