Viola
Viola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 199 births. Its best rank was 42nd, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19184,331 births
- Best rank
- #42in 1908
- Since 1880
- 132,741people given the name
The story in the numbers
132,741 girls have been named Viola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 4,331 births — 0.37% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 199 births in 2024, against 4,331 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 47 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Viola | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,806 | |
| 1890s | 9,386 | |
| 1900s | 16,559 | |
| 1910s | 33,077 | |
| 1920s | 33,251 | |
| 1930s | 14,256 | |
| 1940s | 8,269 | |
| 1950s | 5,386 | |
| 1960s | 2,732 | |
| 1970s | 1,058 | |
| 1980s | 764 | |
| 1990s | 488 | |
| 2000s | 734 | |
| 2010s | 1,870 | |
| 2020s | 1,105 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Viola was the 59th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Viola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madiepeak 1915
- Tressiepeak 1921
- Henrettapeak 1916
- Lessiepeak 1916
- Ressiepeak 1917
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Exiepeak 1921
- Elviepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.