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)
The name Viola is the #561 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 132,974 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #301 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 132,540 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,152 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 434 births since 1889.
Viola has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys).
The name Viola has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Viola reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 90.4% percentile (ranked #59) with 3,450 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 5,540 births per million (ranked 89.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Viola ranks #721 for girls (23.9% percentile) with 132 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Viola reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #505) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 83 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1948.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Viola".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Viola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Viola is pronounced as vai-OH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vee-OH-luh, at 27.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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.
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