Victor

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Victor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 60◐
  • RURussia1 in 85
  • BYBelarus1 in 98

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 13 countries

#36 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
542 ●

17M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 57 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

VictorLatin · Spanish●8M records
ВикторCyrillic · Russian●13M records
ᲕიქტორGeorgian · Georgian●3.9K records
ভিক্টরBengali · Bangla●172 records
ՎիկտորArmenian · Armenian●17 records
빅터Hangul · Korean●4 records
ΒικτορGreek · Greek●2 records
วคเตอรThai · Thai●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Виктор in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Viktor in HU Hungary, CZ Czechia, MD Moldova, Віктор in UA Ukraine and Wiktor in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Victor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2512,141,0272.9M rec.—#7Виктор200
UA Ukraine#195,307,7125.2M rec.—listedВіктор122
AR Argentina#792,117,3221.2M rec.—557Victor163
PE Peru#81,565,522896K rec.—238KVictor148
MX Mexico#261,442,9191.1M rec.—1.5KVictor266
VE Venezuela#21945,840256K rec.——Victor126
BR Brazil#90489,038△181K rec.1 in 433489KVictor251
CL Chile#23488,80843K rec.—241Victor185
US United States#144336,6303.1M rec.1 in 988337KVictor542
CO Colombia#72148,81472K rec.—7Victor176
EC Ecuador#8139,916△5K rec.1 in 121140KVictor98
GB United Kingdom#240139,343126K rec.—4Victor234

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish8M41%
  • Portuguese4.7M24%
  • English3.6M18%
  • French803K4%
  • 246K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish8,047,60741%
Portuguese4,727,75124%
English3,576,96318%
French803,0634%
246,0071%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Victor is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name282K records spelled Victor8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Víctor, Vìctor, Vićtor, Ví́ctor, V́íctor

  • Romanian given name89K records spelled Victor4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, United States, Romania, Spain

    Also written Víctor

  • Khmer given name20K records spelled Victor3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Nigeria

    Languages: Khmer, Vietnamese

    Also written Víctor

  • Sinhala given name5.1K records spelled Victor13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, South Africa

    Languages: Sinhala, Hindi, Bangla

    Also written Viktar, Víctor, Vîctor, Vikṭar, Vìctor

118 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Victor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Latin ‘conqueror’; used in Britain more widely after the French Revolution.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In German, Lat. 'victor, winner'; several saints' names

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In French, ‘Conqueror’, an agent deriv. of vincere to win, defeat). Vigeon see Vivian 640 Vincent Viggars

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In German, lat. "Sieger", meh- rere HI.; Victor, | s, i(u)s, owski. Fictoor, Wic(k)- tor, Vitteir(s), Wigdor- (sky)

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, The winner in a fight or contest.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.4K · 1990

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Victor in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880100
1881110
1882109
188399
1884124
1885143
1886146
1887119
1888134
1889158
1890138
1891154
1892200
1893172
1894180
1895196
1896201
1897190
1898205
1899175
1900269
1901169
1902205
1903196
1904218
1905268
1906249
1907245
1908308
1909320
1910372
1911493
1912989
19131,177
19141,559
19152,211
19162,215
19172,207
19183,183
19192,751
19202,349
19212,407
19222,322
19232,226
19242,189
19252,119
19262,016
19271,983
19281,946
19291,941
19301,844
19311,623
19321,612
19331,431
19341,420
19351,545
19361,517
19371,542
19381,561
19391,475
19401,567
19411,667
19422,397
19432,613
19442,162
19452,631
19462,130
19472,355
19482,477
19492,519
19502,713
19512,733
19522,996
19533,099
19543,367
19553,437
19563,908
19574,080
19583,739
19593,815
19604,188
19614,301
19624,208
19634,056
19643,943
19653,682
19663,267
19673,194
19682,940
19693,042
19703,089
19712,885
19722,619
19732,579
19742,621
19752,680
19762,528
19772,548
19782,549
19792,634
19802,822
19812,840
19823,002
19832,970
19843,178
19853,341
19863,293
19873,307
19883,628
19893,905
19904,445
19914,335
19924,293
19934,207
19944,056
19954,098
19963,924
19973,701
19983,997
19994,016
20004,053
20013,921
20023,935
20034,436
20044,289
20054,140
20064,312
20074,275
20083,781
20093,544
20103,181
20112,893
20122,873
20132,731
20142,690
20152,573
20162,464
20172,410
20182,224
20192,105
20201,906
20211,819
20221,772
20231,697
20241,684
20251,664

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1800185019001950Leopold II of Belgium, b. 1835Viktor Vasnetsov, b. 1848Carlos I of Portugal, b. 1863Victor Grignard, b. 1871Edward Victor Appleton, b. 1892Louis Mountbatten, b. 1900Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, b. 1931Viktor Chernomyrdin, b. 1938Viktor Yanukovych, b. 1950

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 164 sources across 87 countries.

Official registers attesting Victor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022365K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—363K#75
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020337K#148
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—242K#213
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024140K#9
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024135K#31
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—106K#83
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—106K#45
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—59K#9
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—22K#8
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22K#196
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202022K—

Reference works 7

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2,224 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Victor?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Victor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Victor have the most bearers?
Victor is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled виктор.
Where is Victor most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Victor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Victor compared with other names?
In Russia, Victor is the 25th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Victor a male or female name?
Victor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Victor mean?
Recorded meaning: from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Victor” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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