Violetta

Violetta: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“little violet”
Origin
Italian
Say it
vee-o-LET-uh · 4 syllables
Used for
Girls

Italian diminutive of Viola, from Latin viola, the violet flower. Also familiar from Verdi’s La Traviata heroine Violetta Valéry.

How popular is Violetta?

202445.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Violetta in 2024150

2024 rank#1,457 girls

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18803,112

Violetta is rising: use over the last five years is 2.5× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Violetta

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Violaviolet · Latin
  • Miamine; also Maria diminutive · Italian
  • IsabellaGod is my oath · Italian
  • GiannaGod is gracious · Italian
  • Ariaair; melody · Italian
  • Bellabeautiful · Italian
  • Siennafrom Siena · Italian
  • Ariannamost holy · Italian

Violetta questions

What does the name Violetta mean?

Violetta means "little violet". It comes from Italian. Italian diminutive of Viola, from Latin viola, the violet flower. Also familiar from Verdi’s La Traviata heroine Violetta Valéry.

Is Violetta a boy or girl name?

Violetta is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Violetta?

150 US babies were named Violetta in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Violetta?

Violetta is usually pronounced vee-o-LET-uh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.