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How popular is the name Viola?
Births per year, rank history and how many Violas are alive today.
Viola (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1051st in 2025 and given to 32 babies. The name peaked in 2018, when 46 babies were given the name, the 815th most popular that year. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Viola you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Violas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 15, and there are at least 640 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Viola - on average, only one in every 493 such rooms contains a Viola.
How many babies are named Viola each year?
Where does Viola rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Viola most popular?
Viola peaked in 2018, when 46 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Viola?
At least 640 people named Viola born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Viola?
Most living Violas are between 5 and 15; the most common age is about 9.
Is Viola becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.