The story in the numbers

328,729 boys have been named Victor in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 4,445 births — 0.22% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 151 → 214).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1990s alone account for 12%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 74 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,807 girls have also been given it, 0.55% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Victor

1,242

1,811

2,447

17,157

21,498

15,570

22,520

33,886

36,824

26,734

32,290

41,068

40,685

26,137

8,860

In 1990, its biggest year

Victor was the 82nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.

Names that rose and fell with Victor

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.