Viktor
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viktor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Victor ‘conqueror’.
- 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 ●
- #36 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 542 ●
- 1 in 57 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
17M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Victor in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 17 more, Виктор in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, 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 Latin Victor ‘conqueror’. See $Victor in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #25 | 12,141,027 | 2.9M rec. | — | #7 | Виктор | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #19 | 5,307,712 | 5.2M rec. | — | listed | Віктор | 122 |
| AR Argentina | #79 | 2,117,322 | 1.2M rec. | — | 557 | Victor | 163 |
| PE Peru | #8 | 1,565,522 | 896K rec. | — | 238K | Victor | 148 |
| MX Mexico | #26 | 1,442,919 | 1.1M rec. | — | 1.5K | Victor | 266 |
| VE Venezuela | #21 | 945,840 | 256K rec. | — | — | Victor | 126 |
| BR Brazil | #90 | 489,038△ | 181K rec. | 1 in 433 | 489K | Victor | 251 |
| CL Chile | #23 | 488,808 | 43K rec. | — | 241 | Victor | 185 |
| US United States | #144 | 336,630 | 3.1M rec. | 1 in 988 | 337K | Victor | 542 |
| CO Colombia | #72 | 148,814 | 72K rec. | — | 7 | Victor | 176 |
| EC Ecuador | #8 | 139,916△ | 5K rec. | 1 in 121 | 140K | Victor | 98 |
| GB United Kingdom | #240 | 139,343 | 126K rec. | — | 4 | Victor | 234 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian997K46%
- Hungarian405K19%
- Polish124K6%
- Russian106K5%
- German96K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 996,758 | 46% |
| Hungarian | 405,309 | 19% |
| Polish | 124,495 | 6% |
| Russian | 105,847 | 5% |
| German | 96,365 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Viktor 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.
Means from Latin = victorious.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Swedish, Viktor är ett latinskt namn, identiskt med ordet victor ’segrare’. Namnet blev tidigt ett populärt kristet namn och har burits av många helgon och fyra påvar. I Sverige blev det ett modenamn i slutet av 1800-talet. Namnet har också varit ett av de populäraste namnen under de senaste decennierna men är nu på nedgång. I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 januari och i den finlandssvenska 22 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, The Conqueror
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Victor: männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs (lat. victor »Sieger«, auch
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, "conqueror."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1943 | 3 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 1 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1953 | 2 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 2 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 2 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 4 |
| 1969 | 2 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 3 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 4 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 90 years between 1925–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Viktor Vasnetsovb. 1848RURussian artist (1848-1926)
- Viktor Chernovb. 1873RURussian politician (1873–1952)
- Viktor Franklb. 1905ATAustrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
- Viktor Hambardzumyanb. 1908AMSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
- Viktor Lvovich Korchnoib. 1931CHSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Viktor Chernomyrdinb. 1938RURussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
- Viktor Zubkovb. 1941RURussian politician and businessman
- Viktor Yanukovychb. 1950UAPresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- Viktor Yushchenkob. 1954UA3rd President of Ukraine
- Victor Orbanb. 1963HUnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026) (born 1963)
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 93 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35K | #123 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 31K | #115 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30K | #115 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 28K | #43 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20K | — |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 18K | #35 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 18K | #35 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15K | #291 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14K | #326 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 12K | #149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,885 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6K | #114 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 834 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Viktor?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Viktor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Viktor have the most bearers?
- Viktor is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled виктор.
- Where is Viktor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viktor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Viktor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Viktor is the 25th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Viktor a male or female name?
- Viktor 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 Viktor mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Victor ‘conqueror’.
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About this data
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, “Viktor” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.