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.
When Wioletta celebrates name day
Wioletta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 29 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 parents choose Wioletta
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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Subcarpathian
+160%1 in 7,092 babies
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Lesser Poland
+95%1 in 9,455 babies
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Silesian
+95%1 in 9,483 babies
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Pomeranian
−75%1 in 73,661 babies
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West Pomeranian
−56%1 in 42,213 babies
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Podlaskie
−44%1 in 32,893 babies
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Subcarpathian+160% 17 born1 in 7,092 babies+160%
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Lesser Poland+95% 24 born1 in 9,455 babies+95%
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Silesian+95% 24 born1 in 9,483 babies+95%
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Masovian+30% 25 born1 in 14,171 babies+30%
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Lower Silesian+18% 10 born1 in 15,713 babies+18%
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Łódź−27% 5 born1 in 25,344 babies−27%
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Lublin−28% 4 born1 in 25,669 babies−28%
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Holy Cross−33% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−33%
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Podlaskie−44% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−44%
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West Pomeranian−56% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−56%
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Pomeranian−75% 2 born1 in 73,661 babies−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 Róża21,911
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#85 Czesława21,589
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#86 Wioletta21,245
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#87 Angelika20,578
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#88 Martyna20,318