Victor
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Victor 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. Recorded meaning: from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’.
- 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 Victor 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 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)
from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Victor 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)
Victor 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 English, Latin ‘conqueror’; used in Britain more widely after the French Revolution.
as a nameIrish first names
In German, Lat. 'victor, winner'; several saints' names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In French, ‘Conqueror’, an agent deriv. of vincere to win, defeat). Vigeon see Vivian 640 Vincent Viggars
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, lat. "Sieger", meh- rere HI.; Victor, | s, i(u)s, owski. Fictoor, Wic(k)- tor, Vitteir(s), Wigdor- (sky)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, The winner in a fight or contest.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Leopold II of Belgiumb. 1835BEnot in their usual nameKing of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 (1835–1909)
- Viktor Vasnetsovb. 1848RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1848-1926)
- Carlos I of Portugalb. 1863PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
- Victor Grignardb. 1871FRFrench chemist (1871-1935)
- Edward Victor Appletonb. 1892GBEnglish physicist (1892–1965)
- Louis Mountbattenb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameBritish statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)
- Viktor Lvovich Korchnoib. 1931CHnot in their usual nameSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Viktor Chernomyrdinb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
- Viktor Yanukovychb. 1950UAnot in their usual namePresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 170 sources across 87 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 365K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 363K | #75 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 337K | #148 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 242K | #213 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 140K | #9 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 59K | #9 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #75 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 678 | #148 |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Victor mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Victor a male or female name?
- Victor 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.
- In which country does Victor 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 Victor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Victor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 57 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Victor?
- In the etymology graph, Viktor, Wiktor and Viktors are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Victor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 337,308 people named Victor in 2020, about 1 in 986 residents.
- How common is Victor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Victor 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/victorThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Victor” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.