Violeta
Violeta was given to 451 girls in 2025, #641 among girls’ names; 8,735 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,450 Americans named Violeta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Violeta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Violeta mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Violeta is “a female given name, equivalent to English Violet” Its etymology gives the sense “violet” (violeta).
From violeta (“violet”).
/bjoˈleta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Violeta?
#641 among girls’ names, 2025
Violeta rose from #1,152 in 2015 to #641 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.28 per 1,000.
451 babies in 2025, the peak
Violeta peaked in 2025, when 451 girls were given it, #641 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 414 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 451 | #641 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 414 | #688 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 450 | #655 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 391 | #741 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 304 | #890 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 298 | #892 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 299 | #892 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 274 | #967 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,013 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 246 | #1,063 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 221 | #1,152 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 191 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 207 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 231 | #1,078 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 215 | #1,143 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 250 | #1,007 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,634 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 185 | #1,321 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 166 | #1,379 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,677 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,672 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,533 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,188 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,272 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,562 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,022 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,477 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,394 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,913 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,424 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,621 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,518 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,047 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,419 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 160 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,371 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,336 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,353 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 106 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,470 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,396 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,933 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,597 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,526 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 67 | #1,455 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,965 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,514 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,480 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,186 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,912 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,224 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,387 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,220 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #4,009 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,943 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,257 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,358 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,548 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Violeta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Violeta has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Violeta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Violeta, and how old are they?
8,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,735 Americans ever recorded as Violeta. The median Violeta alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 13,671 people named Violeta (13,656 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 189 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,980 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Violeta born?
The states with the most babies named Violeta are Texas, California and Florida, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 125 | #277 | 2.2× |
| California | 103 | #319 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 24 | #709 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 21 | #493 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 18 | #387 | 1.3× |
| New York | 14 | #1,085 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 13 | #539 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 12 | #495 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #899 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,068 | 0.4× |
Where Violeta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Violeta is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Violeta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 18,446 babies since 1880, Violeta is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 451 of their 945 babies (48%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Violeta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Violeta and names like it
- Compare Violeta and VioletteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVioleta peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Violeta since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Violeta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Violeta.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Violeta alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.