Violeta

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Violeta is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name123K records spelled Violeta12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Philippines

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Víoleta, Vióleta

• Lithuanian given name5.6K records spelled Violeta3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

  Also written Vioļeta

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Violeta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Violeta är en spansk smekform till → Viola, medan Violetta är en italiensk. En känd namnbärare är den chilenska folksångerskan Violeta Parra (1917–67) medan namnformen Violetta är bekant genom huvudpersonen i Verdis opera La Traviata (1853).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, weibl. Vom. zu span, violeta »Veil­ chen«.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 115 years between 1909–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Violeta Parrab. 1917CLChilean musician and folklorist
• Violeta Barrios de Chamorrob. 1929NIPresident of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997 (1929–2025)
• Isabel Parrab. 1939CLnot in their usual nameChilean singer songwriter
• Violeta Andreib. 1941ROactress from Romania
• Violeta Dinescub. 1953RORomanian German composer and pianist (born 1953)
• Violeta Urmanab. 1961LTLithuanian opera singer
• Violeta Bermúdezb. 1961PEPeruvian politician
• Violeta Bulcb. 1964SISlovenian politician
• Violeta Szekelyb. 1965RORomanian middle-distance runner
• Viki Miljkovićb. 1974RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,055 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Violeta?

We estimate roughly 83 thousand people bear Violeta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.

In which country does Violeta have the most bearers?

Violeta is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled violeta.

Where is Violeta most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Violeta is densest in North Macedonia — about 1 in 253 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.

How common is Violeta compared with other names?

In Peru, Violeta is the 198th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

Is Violeta a male or female name?

Violeta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Violeta mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish diminutive/variant of Viola; from Latin viola 'violet'