Wioletta
Around 72,000 Polish women carry it, though it's barely given to newborns anymore. From a Slavic root, the name means violet, the flower.
Wioletta Pronunciation
Wioletta is pronounced vyo-LET-tah (/vjɔˈlɛtta/).
What Wioletta means
Where Wioletta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wioletta belongs to the flower names, and its short meaning points straight at the violet, the fiołek that opens low in Polish spring. Its roots reach into Slavic ground. The flower sits at the front of the name and does not hide behind anything.
The name keeps company with shorter forms. Wioleta loses a single letter and little else. Viyaleta shifts the spelling again. Wiola runs ahead as the diminutive, the form a teacher reaches for first.
Picture a school register with three Wiolettas in one year, each answering to Wiola by the second lesson. The longer form stays on the official page at the urząd, on the birth record and the ID. The short meaning never travels far from the flower. Say Wioletta and you are half a step from fiołek.
How many people are named Wioletta
1 in 312 women in Poland is named Wioletta. 72,371 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #150 among female names.
Wioletta's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #545 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #150 name among living women, even as it slips to #545 among newborns.
Where Wioletta is most popular
Wioletta is most popular in Subcarpathian, 160% above the national average (17 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+95%) and Silesian (+95%). It is least common in Pomeranian and West Pomeranian, 75% and 56% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian17 girls born+160%
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Lesser Poland24 girls born+95%
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Silesian24 girls born+95%
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Masovian25 girls born+30%
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Lower Silesian10 girls born+18%
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Łódź5 girls born−27%
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Lublin4 girls born−28%
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Świętokrzyskie2 girls born−33%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−44%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−56%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−75%
Wioletta as a middle name
Wioletta is a first name for 72,371 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21,245, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 86th, between Czesława (21,589) and Angelika (20,578).
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84
21,911Róża
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85
21,589Czesława
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8621,245Wioletta
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87
20,578Angelika
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88
20,318Martyna
When Wioletta celebrates name day
Wioletta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 29 October.