Viola

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Viola: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Viola: Recorded since 1953, with a gap of 12 years, its highest recorded position is #211, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#211highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Viola's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1999	#2189
2000	#3247
2001	#2783
2002	#1928
2003	#3594
2004	#2278
2005	#2438
2006	#2137
2007	#2233
2008	#1718
2009	#1668
2010	#1520
2011	#1374
2012	#1387
2013	#1433
2014	#1094
2015	#1279
2016	#1086
2017	#899
2018	#815
2019	#1153
2020	#894
2021	#1224
2022	#1058
2023	#813
2024	#918
2025	#1051

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 37 of the 73 years from 1953 to 2025.

In 2025: #211 among girls in Norway, #1051 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1953–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1953
First recorded at #440 among girls in Norway in 1953 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1953–2025
Highest recorded position: #211 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1953–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1051 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Viola appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 37 years beginning in 1953, and has registered 347 births with the name.

Viola across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Viola's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#440 (1953)	#211 (2025)	#211 (2025)	37 of 73	347 (1953–2025)	21 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#813 (2023)	#1051 (2025)	28 of 29	608 (1997–2025)	46 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#871 (2019)	5 of 15	17 (2005–2019)	4 (2012)

Viola by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Viola in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	3 of 10	5
1960s	10	2 of 10	5
1970s	24	5 of 10	5
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000s	63	8 of 10	8
2010s	121	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	96	6 of 10	16

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Viola appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #211 in Norway in 2025.

Viola's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#1051	32	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#918	39	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#813	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1058	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1153	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#815	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#899	42	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1086	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1094	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1374	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#211	21	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#297	13	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#227	20	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#232	18	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#320	11	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#299	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#384	9	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#368	11	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#337	13	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#322	15	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#406	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#368	12	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#392	11	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#261	21	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#408	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#440	9	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#345	14	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#411	10	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#499	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#358	12	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#574	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#573	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#642	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#579	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#464	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#631	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#532	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#620	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#629	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#558	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#418	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#397	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#440	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Viola is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Viola, between 1953 and 2025, in 40 of those 73 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1953–2025	37	#211 in 2025
England and Wales	1997–2025	28	#813 in 2023
Republic of Ireland	2005–2019	5	#689 in 2005

Its high point came 20 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (2005) than in Norway (2025).

No registrar recorded it for 12 years after 1977; it appears again in 1990.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1953 and 2025, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #211, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 52 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Felicia · #210, 39y
Gerda · #212, 40y
Davin · #213, 43y
Jerry · #213, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Dorthe · #211, 51y
Bogdan · #212, 62y
Daniela · #207, 64y
Ann-Helen · #216, 47y

Viola was ranked #211 in Norway · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aylin#207
Ellen#208
Ester#209
Inga#210
Alexandra#212
Alise#213
Annie#214
Jasmin#215

Viola and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Viola without appearing here.

Viola moved ahead of

Ryan
In 2003 they stood at #2738 and #2411 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2278 and #4598.
Pauline
In 2008 they stood at #1718 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1668 and #3936.
Debra
In 2005 they stood at #3594 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #4157.
Cian
In 2004 they stood at #3594 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2438 and #3970.

Moved ahead of Viola

Maia
In 1996 they stood at #579 and #659 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #643 and #226.
Beau
In 1998 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #2189 and #1805.
Iben
In 1996 they stood at #579 and #603 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #643 and #374.
Leah
In 1996 they stood at #464 and #613 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #643 and #381.

Moved the opposite way to Viola

Åse
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 while Aud went from #13 to #427.
Bjørg
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 while Bjørg went from #11 to #369.
Eileen
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 while Eileen went from #300 to #501.

Moved the same way as Viola

Alice
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 and Alice from #342 to #182.
Anna
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 and Anna from #73 to #23.
Elise
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 and Elise from #225 to #63.
Ella
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Viola went from #440 to #211 and Ella from #182 to #4.

What is known about Viola

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1953–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #211 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Viola

Viola at a glance

What stands out in Viola's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Viola across 3 official records

Viola by decade in Norway · Girls

Viola appears in

Popularity data

Where Viola is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Viola

Viola and the names beside it

Viola moved ahead of

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What is known about Viola

Viola at a glance

What stands out in Viola's record

Viola across 3 official records

Viola by decade in Norway · Girls

Viola appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Viola

Viola and the names beside it

Viola moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Viola

Moved the opposite way to Viola

Moved the same way as Viola