Victor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 87 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/biɣt̪oɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Victor is a male 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. Victor is also written Виктор in Cyrillic, Վիկտոր in Armenian and ভিক্টর in Bengali.
- MDMoldova1 in 57(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 120
- PYParaguay≈1 in 120
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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)
- Record sources
- 603 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Виктор, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Victor in other scripts: Cyrillic, Armenian, Bengali and 4 more
(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.
How to pronounce Victor
- Spanish:/biɣt̪oɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- English:/ˈvɪk.tə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ˈvik.toh/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the medieval male personal name Victor, from Latin victor ‘conqueror’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Victor, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | register #7 | Виктор | 229 |
| MX Mexico | #24 | ≈880,000 est. | ≈1 in 149 | 1.5K | Victor | 282 |
| NG Nigeria | #28 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 376 | — | Victor | 181 |
| UA Ukraine | #19 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | listed | Віктор | 137 |
| 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 116 | 238K | Victor | 160 |
| MD Moldova | #254 | 59,421 | 1 in 57 | 59K | Victor | 59 |
| PY Paraguay | #17 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 120 | register #10 | Victor | 80 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)
- Victor Grignardb. 1871FRFrench chemist (1871-1935)
- 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)170 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 87 countries.
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. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and France (INSEE, 2024), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Victor?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Виктор in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, Nigeria, Ukraine and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 do you pronounce Victor?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /biɣt̪oɾ/; in English /ˈvɪk.tə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ˈvik.toh/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/victorThe 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, “Victor” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.