Wiktor
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wiktor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Victor.
- 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, 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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Victor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 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●
- Polish574K98%
- English2K1%
- German1.6K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.3K1%
- Finnish1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 574,467 | 98% |
| English | 2,015 | 1% |
| German | 1,616 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,334 | 1% |
| Finnish | 1,220 | 1% |
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●
Wiktor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Victor
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 4 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 22 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 13 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 36 years between 1956–2025. 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. 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 Yushchenkob. 1954UAnot in their usual name3rd President of Ukraine
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 50 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 118K | #59 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 116K | #59 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #1,371 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,518 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,271 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,388 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 771 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 446 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 446 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 434 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 317 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wiktor?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Wiktor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wiktor have the most bearers?
- Wiktor is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled виктор.
- Where is Wiktor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wiktor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Wiktor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Wiktor is the 25th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Wiktor a male or female name?
- Wiktor 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 Wiktor mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Victor
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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, “Wiktor” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.