Vic

loc · Latin script

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

Vic is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Australia. Recorded meaning: From English Vic, a diminutive of Victor.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia
  • MAMorocco
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Australia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
398 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From English Vic, a diminutive of Victor.

Sources 3

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vic counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Vic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia—1Vic138
US United States—2.9KVic398
IN India—7Vic43
MA Morocco——Vic7
GB United Kingdom—listedVic179
NL Netherlands—495—40

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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; the hanks-first-names-2001 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vic is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Senegal

    Also written Vicq-Sur-Breuilh, Vić, Víc, Vic', Viç

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vić

  • Indonesian name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Vić, Vič, Vįć

  • Russian given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Вик, Вік, Вич, Vik, Vick

  • Thai surname114 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, India

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written บิ๊ก, บก, บุ๊ค, บูกุ๊, บูกุ

59 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(measured from records)

Vic 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 Catalan, Vic (the capital of the comarca of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia)

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

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Virgin Islands Creole.

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, joke (a funny or witty story, usually spoken)

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

  • In vep, twig, switch

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

  • In Latvian, (Narkozes aparāta) iekšējās cirkulācijas kontūra iztvaikotājs

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

19201940196019802000Vic Seixas, b. 1923Vic Damone, b. 1928Vic Morrow, b. 1929Vic Tayback, b. 1930Vic Firth, b. 1930Vic Akers, b. 1946Vic Mignogna, b. 1962Vic Chou, b. 1981Vic Wild, b. 1986Vic Chao, b. 1999
  • Vic Seixasb. 1923USAmerican tennis player (1923–2024)
  • Vic Damoneb. 1928USAmerican singer and actor (1928–2018)
  • Vic Morrowb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929–1982)
  • Vic Taybackb. 1930USAmerican actor (1930–1990)
  • Vic Firthb. 1930USAmerican musician (1930–2015)
  • Vic Akersb. 1946GBEnglish football player and manager (born 1946)
  • Vic Mignognab. 1962USAmerican voice actor
  • Vic Choub. 1981TWTaiwanese actor and singer (born 1981)
  • Vic Wildb. 1986USAmerican-born Russian snowboarder
  • Vic Chaob. 1999USAmerican actor

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(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 30 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Vic mean, and where does it come from?
From English Vic, a diminutive of Victor. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Vic have the most bearers?
Vic is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled vic.

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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, “Vic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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