Viola

Viola is the 5,392nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,247 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,247
Rank: 5,392nd
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Viola described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Hispanic or Latino 7.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Viola

Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924–1994)military officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
Bill Viola (1951–2024)American video and installation artist
Viola (born 1969)Brazilian footballer
Franca Viola (born 1948)Italian activist against woman violence
Enrique Fernández Viola (1912–1985)Uruguayan footballer
Giovanni Viola (1926–2008)Italian footballer
József Viola (1896–1949)association football player

People named Viola with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Viola

Violette

Also a first name

Viola has been given to 133,427 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.