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Vic vs Vicki

American parents have registered 153,560 Vickis since 1880, against 2,155 Vics. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vic against Vicki, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vic Vicki

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Vicki for 106 years and Vic for 6 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Vic Vicki
Total US births 2,155153,560
Most in one year 808,236
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,500123,000
Median age today 6267
Peak year 19581954
Best rank 844th boys50th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18991914
Girls / boys 0 / 2,155153,266 / 294

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vickis alive today are over 67; half the Vics are over 62. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vic Vicki
France 7555

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vic and Vicki.