Victor
The 2025 national count puts Victor at #211, holding steady. Its high-water mark came in 1918, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Victor carries
Victor · Latin
“conqueror”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Victor’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Victor, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Victor since 1880
Victor peaked in 1918 at #63; #211 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Victor is most common
The state that gives Victor most often, per boys born there, is North Dakota (0.27% in 2025); Arizona and Montana are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Victor
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Vivian
#72 in 2025 · Latin
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Vincent
#107 in 2025 · Latin
Vera
#205 in 2025 · Slavonic
Mabel
#201 in 2025 · Latin
Gracie
#227 in 2025 · Latin
Justin
#233 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
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About Victor
How common is Victor today?
The 2025 national count puts Victor at #211, holding steady. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Victor have a meaning on record?
“conqueror” is the meaning our source sets down, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Victor?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Vivian sits closest, with Rose and Vincent just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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