Víctor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Victor; dated form of Vítor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/biɡtoɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Víctor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 108(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 121
- NGNigeria≈1 in 318
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Víctor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #28 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 603 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 named Виктор, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Victor in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 3 more, Виктор in RU Russia and Віктор in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Victor; dated form of Vítor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Víctor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #26 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | #7 | Виктор | 229 |
| UA Ukraine | #19 | ≈680,000 est. | ≈1 in 65 | listed | Віктор | 137 |
| NG Nigeria | #28 | ≈670,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | — | Victor | 181 |
| BR Brazil | #73 | 489,038as Vitor | 1 in 433 | 489K | Victor | 258 |
| US United States | #150 | 337,308 | 1 in 986 | 337K | Victor | 603 |
| PE Peru | #15 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 238K | Victor | 160 |
| EC Ecuador | #20 | 139,916 | 1 in 121 | 140K | Victor | 106 |
| MD Moldova | #254 | 59,421 | 1 in 57 | 59K | Victor | 59 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Víctor 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 Spanish, Latin Victor, "victor, conqueror".
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Victor IIIb. 1027IThead of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087
- Leopold II of Belgiumb. 1835BEnot in their usual nameKing of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 (1835–1909)
- Wilhelm II.b. 1859DEnot in their usual nameas King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
- Carlos I of Portugalb. 1863PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
- Victor Grignardb. 1871FRFrench chemist (1871-1935)
- Victor McLaglenb. 1886GBBritish-American actor (1886–1959)
- Edward Victor Appletonb. 1892GBEnglish physicist (1892–1965)
- Louis Mountbattenb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameBritish statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)
- Víctor Paz Estenssorob. 1907BO45th President of Bolivia
- Victor IITPope and Bishop of Rome from 189 to 199
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 242K | #214 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 238K | #6 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Víctor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Victor; dated form of Vítor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Víctor?
- A machine transcription gives /biɡtoɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Víctor a male or female name?
- Víctor 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 are other forms of the name Víctor?
- In the etymology graph, Viktor, Wiktor and Viktors are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Víctor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Виктор in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Víctor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Víctor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Víctor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 337,308 people named Víctor in 2020, about 1 in 986 residents.
- How common is Víctor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Víctor is the 26th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%ADctorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Víctor” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.