as a First Name
From Latin viola ‘violet’. The name is relatively common in Italy and was used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, where most of the characters have Italianate names. Its modern use in English has been influenced by the vocabulary word denoting the flower.
| 740th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 47,308
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 94,698
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Viola per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
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