Victoire
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Victoire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name. Recorded meaning: French form of Latin Victoria, from victor ‘victorious’.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.9K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French form of Latin Victoria, from victor ‘victorious’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Victoire 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #55 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Victoire | 10 |
| FR France | #829 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 32K | Victoire | 282 |
| CM Cameroon | #323 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Victoire | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Victoire | 17 |
| MG Madagascar | #447 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1 | Victoire | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 406 | 1 in 43K | 387 | — | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the wgnd-cd-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Victoire 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 French, Latin origin; from victoria ‘victory’, ‘to conquer’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French form of English Victoria. See main dictionary. Pet form: Victorine.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, victory; win
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Victoria était, chez les Romains, la personnification de la victoire et, en tant que telle, honorée comme une déesse, surtout par les généraux victorieux. Son temple se trouvait sur le mont Palatin. Littré cite même le victoriat, « pièce de monnaie d’argent valant cinq as, à l’effigie de la Victoire ».
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, Latin, de Victoria, «victoire».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Marie Victoire de Noaillesb. 1688FRCountess of Toulouse (1688–1766)
- Victoire de Franceb. 1733FRFrench princess; the seventh child and fifth daughter of King Louis XV of France (1733-1799)
- Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaqueleinb. 1772FRFrench writer
- Adèle Foucherb. 1803FRnot in their usual namewife of French writer Victor Hugo (1803–1868)
- Juliette Bonheurb. 1830FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1830–1891)
- Olga Georges-Picotb. 1940FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1940-1997)
- Victoire Dogbé Tomegahb. 1959TGPrime Minister of Togo (2020-2025)
- Victoire Du Boisb. 1988FRFrench actress
- Victoire Thivisolb. 1991FRFrench actress
- Victoire Lalyb. 1991BJactress
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 55 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 32K | #26 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 387 | #2,402 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 96 | #8,226 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 19 | #12,096 |
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #452 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Victoire mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Latin Victoria, from victor ‘victorious’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Victoire a male or female name?
- Victoire is a female 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 Victoire?
- In the etymology graph, Victoria, Vicki and Vickie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Victoire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Victoire in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled victoire.
- How common is the name Victoire?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 406 people named Victoire, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Victoire compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Victoire is the 55th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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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, “Victoire” — the 55th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.