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Vikki vs Vikram

American parents have registered 6,487 Vikkis since 1880, against 2,084 Vikrams. But in 2025 it was Vikram that was commoner, 43 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vikki against Vikram, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vikki Vikram

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 87 years in which either name was published, Vikki for 45 years and Vikram for 42 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Vikki Vikram
Total US births 6,4872,084
Most in one year 29565
Babies in 2025 under 543
Estimated living today 5,5002,000
Median age today 6120
Peak year 19572000
Best rank 560th girls1,725th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,884th
First recorded 19391969
Girls / boys 6,487 / 00 / 2,084

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 Vikkis alive today are over 61; half the Vikrams are over 20. That is 41 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 Vikki Vikram
England and Wales 103281

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: Vikki and Vikram.