Violetta
Violetta was given to 196 girls in 2025, #1,184 among girls’ names; 3,308 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Violetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Violetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Violetta mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Violetta is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “violet” (violetta).
From violetta (“violet”) or a diminutive form of the older given name Viola. Name of the supposedly French heroine of Verdi’s opera La traviata (1853).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Violetta?
#1,184 among girls’ names, 2025
Violetta rose from #1,881 in 2015 to #1,184 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.12 per 1,000.
196 babies in 2025, the peak
Violetta peaked in 2025, when 196 girls were given it, #1,184 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 150 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 196 | #1,184 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,589 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,629 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,570 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,613 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,740 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,814 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,813 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,037 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,593 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,003 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,491 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,236 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,089 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,943 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,077 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,803 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,783 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,228 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,558 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,434 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,171 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,555 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,205 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,565 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,793 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,055 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,772 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,637 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,448 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,432 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,672 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,331 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,449 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,021 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,388 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,355 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,900 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,301 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,878 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,594 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,504 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,713 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,567 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,467 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,361 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,444 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,775 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,510 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,147 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,181 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,013 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #4,010 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,847 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,091 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,921 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,496 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,469 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,534 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,072 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,203 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1884 | 8 | #849 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Violetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Violetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 136 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Violetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Violetta, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 3,308 Americans ever recorded as Violetta. The median Violetta alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,581 people named Violetta (2,580 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,758 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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 | 64 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 367 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Violetta born?
The states with the most babies named Violetta are Texas, California and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 42 | #724 | 1.0× |
| California | 32 | #907 | 1.2× |
| New York | 16 | #977 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 15 | #475 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,431 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,109 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,270 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,197 | 0.1× |
Where Violetta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Violetta is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Violetta 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, Violetta is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 196 of their 945 babies (21%), again the third 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 Violetta
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 Violetta and names like it
- Compare Violetta and VioletaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVioletta peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Violetta since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Violetta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Violetta.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Violetta alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.