Viola

girls:

132.5k births since 1880

#301 (95th percentile)

boys:

434 births since 1889

#4152 (9th percentile)

overall:

133k births since 1880

#561 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Viola".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
132,540
Peak Births
4,331
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
90.4%
Current Percentile
23.9%
Peak Rank
#42
Current Rank
#721
Female statistics
Total Births
434
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1931
First Recorded
1889
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#202
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Viola

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Viola. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 44.4% confident that Viola is pronounced as vai-OH-luh. The next most likely pronunciation is vee-OH-luh, at 27.8% confidence.

vai-OH-luh (3 syllables)
Verified
44.4% confidence
V AY0 OW1 L AH0
vee-OH-luh (3 syllables)
Verified
27.8% confidence
V IY0 OW1 L AH0
VAI-oh-luh (3 syllables)
22.2% confidence
V AY1 OW0 L AH0
VEE-oh-luh (3 syllables)
5.6% confidence
V IY1 OW0 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Viola. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Viola, please vote using the thumbs up button.

VEE-luh (2 syllables)
4 names 2.3k births
V IY1 L AH0
vuh-LEE-uh (3 syllables)
2 names 140 births
V AH0 L IY1 AH0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like V AY0 OW1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.