Viola is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Viola is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,071 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,070 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 98,183 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Viola. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Viola is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Viola for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Viola is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Viola is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 42 Viola easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1908.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Viola was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 245 babies were named Viola in the USA in 2022, ranking it #936 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2001, when it was only ranked at #2,940 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 43 girls were named Viola.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Viola is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Viola and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Viola, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Orange
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Viola
Viola
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
O
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
I
O
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Viola sounds like this:
