Viktor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "conqueror"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viktor 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.
- SESweden1 in 294(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 65as Віктор
- PEPeru≈1 in 108as Victor
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 Viktor 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 294 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 named Виктор, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Victor in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 4 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)
From Latin Victor ‘conqueror’. See $Victor in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Viktor is read(measured from records)
Viktor is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Ukrainian70%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Viktor in Ukrainian.
- Russian8.4%
"conqueror."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- German6.2%
) Victor: männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs (lat. victor »Sieger«, auch
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viktor 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 | 337,308as Victor | 1 in 986 | 337K | Victor | 603 |
| PE Peru | #15 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 238K | Victor | 160 |
| EC Ecuador | #20 | 139,916as Victor | 1 in 121 | 140K | Victor | 106 |
| MD Moldova | #254 | 59,421as Victor | 1 in 57 | 59K | Victor | 59 |
| SE Sweden | #161 | 34,672 | 1 in 294 | 35K | Victor | 126 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Viktor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin Victor ‘conqueror’. See $Victor in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Means from Latin = victorious.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Swedish, Viktor är ett latinskt namn, identiskt med ordet victor ’segrare’. Namnet blev tidigt ett populärt kristet namn och har burits av många helgon och fyra påvar. I Sverige blev det ett modenamn i slutet av 1800-talet. Namnet har också varit ett av de populäraste namnen under de senaste decennierna men är nu på nedgång. I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 januari och i den finlandssvenska 22 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, The Conqueror
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Viktor Vasnetsovb. 1848RURussian artist (1848-1926)
- Viktor Chernovb. 1873RURussian politician (1873–1952)
- Viktor Franklb. 1905ATAustrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
- Viktor Hambardzumyanb. 1908AMSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
- Viktor Lvovich Korchnoib. 1931CHSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Viktor Chernomyrdinb. 1938RURussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
- Viktor Zubkovb. 1941RURussian politician and businessman
- Viktor Yanukovychb. 1950UAPresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- Viktor Yushchenkob. 1954UA3rd President of Ukraine
- Victor Orbanb. 1963HUPrime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026) (born 1963)
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 99 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35K | #123 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,885 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #7,650 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 554 | #13,451 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 328 | #550 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 162 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 91 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #2,885 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- In which country does Viktor 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 Viktor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viktor is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 294 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Viktor mean?
- In Russian, "conqueror."
- Where does the name Viktor come from?
- From Latin Victor ‘conqueror’. See $Victor in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Viktor a male or female name?
- Viktor 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 Viktor?
- In the etymology graph, Victor, Víctor and Wiktor are forms of the same name in other languages; Vitya is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Viktor?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 34,672 people named Viktor, about 1 in 294 residents.
- How common is Viktor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Viktor is the 26th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viktorThe 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, “Viktor” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.