Viktor
Viktor reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 1,094, and has been recorded 3,634 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,235th. About 3,600 Viktors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Viktor
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,634
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 1,094th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,235th
- First recorded
- 1953
How old the living Viktors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,634 babies given the name since 1953, about 3,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 16 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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.
Notable Viktors
- Viktor Yanukovych (born 1950)President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- Viktor Orbán (born 1963)Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026)
- Viktor Yushchenko (born 1954)3rd President of Ukraine
- Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990)Soviet rock musician
- Viktor Frankl (1905–1997)Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author
- Viktor Vasnetsov (1848–1926)Russian artist
- Viktor Korchnoi (1931–2016)Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Viktor Zubkov (born 1941)Russian politician and businessman
People named Viktor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Viktor is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Viktor is most concentrated in Florida (3.0×), Washington (2.9×), Illinois (2.0×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Viktor peaked:
Viktor elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Viktor | 17,391 | 4th |
| Belgium boys | Viktor | 3,299 | 40th |
| Norway boys | Viktor | 3,242 | 46th |
| France boys | Viktor | 1,865 | 566th |
| Poland boys | Viktor | 1,241 birth registrations | 144th |
| England and Wales boys | Viktor | 739 | 659th |
| Switzerland boys | Viktor | 660 | 184th |
| Italy boys | Viktor | 554 | — |
| Ireland boys | Viktor | 89 | 347th |
| Scotland boys | Viktor | 38 | 490th |
| France girls | Viktor | 5 | 5,177th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Viktor | 3 | 421st |
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.
Viktor: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Viktor | 527 | 0.042% | 165th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Viktor | 105 | 0.024% | 207th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Viktor | 28 | 0.043% | 76th |
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, Viktor is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.06% of children were given it – 195 of them.
Viktor: rank by region
In 2025, Viktor was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Viktor | 28 | 119 |
| Wallonia | Viktor | 317 | 8 |
In 2025, Viktor was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Viktor | 157 | 6 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Viktor | 164 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Viktor | 140 | 2 |
| Lubuskie | Viktor | 116 | 3 |
| Łódzkie | Viktor | 128 | 5 |
| Mazowieckie | Viktor | 222 | 5 |
| Pomorskie | Viktor | 179 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Viktor | 164 | 5 |
| Wielkopolskie | Viktor | 189 | 4 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Viktor | 138 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Viktor appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (11th), Province of Flemish Brabant (26th), Province of Antwerp (35th), Province of West Flanders (48th) and Province of East Flanders (69th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Viktor by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 141 | 131st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Viktor 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Viktor | 1,439 | 3,870 |
| Finland girls | Viktor | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Viktor lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,626 men called Viktor 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Viktor | 399 | 0.397 | 254 |
| Girona | Viktor | 113 | 0.271 | 360 |
| Valencia/València | Viktor | 307 | 0.227 | 357 |
| Málaga | Viktor | 180 | 0.206 | 335 |
| Tarragona | Viktor | 76 | 0.173 | 507 |
| Segovia | Viktor | 13 | 0.164 | 463 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Viktor against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.