Victor

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Victor boys named Victor

By the numbers

Total US births

332,220

Estimated living today

238,000

Median age today

36

Peak year

1990

Best rank

82nd

Rank in 2025

209th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

1,807 / 330,413

How old the living Victors are

born that year still alive today

Of the 332,220 babies given the name since 1880, about 238,000 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 44,000 of them are children and 39,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

From a Latin personal name Victor, borne by several saints, from victor (“conqueror”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Victors

• Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965)English physicist
• Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964)Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate
• Victor I (died 199)Pope and Bishop of Rome from 189 to 199
• Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820–1878)King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy
• Victor Grignard (1871–1935)French chemist
• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869–1947)King of Italy from 1900 to 1946
• Víctor Valdés (born 1982)Spanish association football player
• Victor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010)Russian diplomat and politician

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

Where Victor is most common

• CA61,484
• TX42,772
• NY33,342
• IL17,188
• PA12,686
• FL11,118
• NJ10,760
• OH9,546
• MI8,791
• AZ7,234

Relative to how many babies each state records, Victor is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.9×), California (1.9×), Arizona (1.8×), Texas (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Victor peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Daniel
• David

All the names of 1990

Victor elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Victor: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Victor is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.27% of children were given it – 275 of them.

Victor: rank by region

In 2025, Victor was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Victor was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Victor was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Victor appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (4th), Province of Luxembourg (4th), Province of Liège (6th), Province of Namur (8th), Province of Hainaut (12th), Province of Flemish Brabant (14th), Province of Antwerp (23rd), Brussels-Capital Region (26th), Province of East Flanders (44th), Province of Limburg (51st) and Province of West Flanders (52nd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Victor by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Victor among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Victor lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 106,489 men called Victor were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Victoria
• Vicki
• Vickie
• Vicky
• Vicente
• Vickey
• Victory
• Vic
• Victoriano
• Vicenta
• Vicie
• Victorine

Victor against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Victor vs Victoria
• Victor vs Vicki
• Victor vs Vickie
• Victor vs Vicky
• Victor vs Vicente
• Victor vs Vickey

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