Viola
Latin for the violet, the small purple flower that opens low to the ground in early spring. In Poland it stays rare and is fading further: ranked past 2,000, given to a girl here and there rather than in any steady stream.
Viola Pronunciation
What Viola means
Where Viola comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Viola is the Latin word for the violet, a small flower that opens low to the ground in early spring. Rome used the same word for the bloom and for its deep purple color. Italian kept viola in everyday speech, where it still names the flower and that shade of purple.
The name gained a literary life in Italy's orbit. Shakespeare gave it to the heroine of Twelfth Night, a young woman shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria who disguises herself and keeps her wit. That Viola stays clever under pressure.
In Poland the flower is called fiołek, yet the name arrives dressed in Latin. A teacher reading a class register might find both Viola and the variant Wiola on one page, spelled the Roman way and the way Polish ears hear it. Wiola is the Polish spelling. Both point back to the same small purple flower.
How many people are named Viola
1 in 100642 women in Poland is named Viola. 224 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2081 among female names.
Viola's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Viola as a middle name
Viola is a first name for 224 women in Poland and a middle name for another 42, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1069th, between Thea (42) and Waltraut (42).
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#1067 Sue42
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#1068 Thea42
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#1069 Viola42
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#1070 Waltraut42
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#1071 Wayan42