# Violeta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/violeta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,735 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 8,730 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 122, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 215 | 1,143 |
| 2012 | 231 | 1,078 |
| 2013 | 207 | 1,163 |
| 2014 | 191 | 1,267 |
| 2015 | 221 | 1,152 |
| 2016 | 246 | 1,063 |
| 2017 | 257 | 1,013 |
| 2018 | 274 | 967 |
| 2019 | 299 | 892 |
| 2020 | 298 | 892 |
| 2021 | 304 | 890 |
| 2022 | 391 | 741 |
| 2023 | 450 | 655 |
| 2024 | 414 | 688 |
| 2025 | 451 | 641 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 7,778 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,809 |

## People named Violeta

- Violeta Parra, Chilean musician and folklorist
- Violeta G. Ivanova, astronomer
- Violeta Andrei, actress from Romania
- Violeta Ninova, Bulgarian rower
- Violeta Manushi, Albanian actress (1926–2007)
- Violeta Luna, Ecuadorian writer
- Violeta Urtizberea, Argentine actress
- Violeta Vidaurre, Chilean actress
- Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, Belarusian trampoline gymnast
- Violetta Quesada, Cuban sprinter (1947–2024)
- Isabel Parra, Chilean singer songwriter
- Virginia Luque, Argentine tango singer and actress (1927-2014)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.