Viktors

given name · Latvian · Latin script

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

Viktors is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.

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●

ВикторCyrillic · Russian●13M records
VictorLatin · Spanish●8M 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 Victor in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 17 more, Виктор in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Viktor in HU Hungary, CZ Czechia, MD Moldova and Віктор in UA Ukraine.

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●

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Viktors 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●

  • Latvian17K84%
  • English7103%
  • Norwegian Bokmål3662%
  • Polish3182%
  • Finnish2921%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian17,28884%
English7103%
Norwegian Bokmål3662%
Polish3182%
Finnish2921%

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◐

Viktors is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name48 records spelled Viktors7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written ВикторС

31 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.

Over time●

0204060201020152020

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Viktors in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2010–2020
Yearrecords
201013
201117
201220
201324
201424
201528
201632
201736
201837
201940
202042

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Viktor Vasnetsov, b. 1848Viktor Chernov, b. 1873Viktor Shklovsky, b. 1893Viktor Hambardzumyan, b. 1908Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, b. 1931Viktor Chernomyrdin, b. 1938Viktor Zubkov, b. 1941Viktor Saneyev, b. 1945Viktor Yanukovych, b. 1950Viktor Bout, b. 1967
  • Viktor Vasnetsovb. 1848RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1848-1926)
  • Viktor Chernovb. 1873RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1873–1952)
  • Viktor Shklovskyb. 1893RUnot in their usual nameSoviet Jewish writer
  • Viktor Hambardzumyanb. 1908AMnot in their usual nameSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
  • Viktor Lvovich Korchnoib. 1931CHnot in their usual nameSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
  • Viktor Chernomyrdinb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
  • Viktor Zubkovb. 1941RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and businessman
  • Viktor Saneyevb. 1945GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
  • Viktor Yanukovychb. 1950UAnot in their usual namePresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
  • Viktor Boutb. 1967TJnot in their usual nameRussian convicted illegal arms dealer

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 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Viktors
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—12K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—12K#20
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—366#3,099
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—260#2,973
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202675#2,528
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—65#2,607
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—61#11,935
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—61#866
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202042—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201940—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201837—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201736—

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Viktors?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Viktors (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Viktors have the most bearers?
Viktors is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled виктор.
Where is Viktors most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viktors is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Viktors compared with other names?
In Russia, Viktors is the 25th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Viktors a male or female name?
Viktors 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 Viktors mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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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, “Viktors” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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