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Vikkie vs Vikram

American parents have registered 2,084 Vikrams since 1880, against 62 Vikkies. Vikram is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vikkie against Vikram, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vikkie 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 65 years in which either name was published, Vikram for 57 years and Vikkie for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Vikkie Vikram
Total US births 622,084
Most in one year 1265
Babies in 2025 under 543
Estimated living today 502,000
Median age today 6720
Peak year 19482000
Best rank 2,974th girls1,725th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,884th
First recorded 19481969
Girls / boys 62 / 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 Vikkies alive today are over 67; half the Vikrams are over 20. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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