Viola
Viola is a girl name of Italian origin, meaning Violet flower.
What Viola means
Violet flower.
Viola sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Viola comes from
Italian names preserve Latin forms more directly than most European languages, often keeping the original vowel endings that other languages dropped.
Viola is recorded as Italian in origin. Browse other Italian names.
How popular is Viola?
In the girl name rankings we track, Viola falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Viola
Two ideas meet in Viola: flowers and growing things and Color. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Viola
These share Viola's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Bluebell — The woodland bell flower.
- Hyacinth — The fragrant purple bloom.
- Ianthe — Violet flower.
- Lavender — The fragrant purple flower.
- Lilac — The pale-purple blossom.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Tulip — The tulip flower; turban.
- Zinnia — The bright zinnia flower.
- Bianca — White, pure.