Victoria
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪktɔːɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Victoria is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 735(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 2K
- BYBelarus≈1 in 70as Виктория
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 Victoria 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)
- #73 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 97 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 named Виктория, 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 Виктория in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Вікторія in UA Ukraine and Viktorija in MD Moldova.
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)
Latin ‘victory’; introduced into Ireland from England, later popular, now reviving.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Victoria is read(measured from records)
Victoria is one spelling over 2 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.
- English47%
The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish37%
From Latin victoria, "victory"; Marian title as Nuestra Señora de la Victoria.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Victoria, 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)
Victoria 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 | #39 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 122 | #23 | Виктория | 210 |
| CN China | — | ≈700,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Виктория | 31 |
| US United States | #851 | 452,646 | 1 in 735 | 452K | Victoria | 496 |
| BR Brazil | #298 | 442,374as Vitoria | 1 in 479 | 442K | Victoria | 198 |
| UA Ukraine | #33 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 129 | listed | Вікторія | 115 |
| BY Belarus | #24 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | 11 | Виктория | 44 |
| MD Moldova | #162 | 34,554 | 1 in 97 | 35K | Viktorija | 30 |
| LT Lithuania | #548 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | 26K | Victoria | 45 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; Registrų centras — top-50 given names. 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)
Victoria 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.
In Irish, Latin ‘victory’; introduced into Ireland from England, later popular, now reviving.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, From Latin victoria ‘victory’, feminine of victor.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Feminine form of the Latin name Victorius (a derivative of ) Victor), also perhaps a direct use of Latin vict6ria ‘victory’. It was little known in England until the accession in 1837 of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who got it from her German mother, Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. It did not begin to be a popular name among commoners in Britain until the 1940s, reaching a peak in the 1970s.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Portuguese, a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Victor, equivalent to English Victoria
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)
- Victoriab. 1819GBQueen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
- Mary of Teckb. 1867GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
- Princess Alice of Battenbergb. 1885GBnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
- Victoria Nulandb. 1961USAmerican diplomat (born 1961)
- Victoria Silvstedtb. 1974SESwedish model, actress, singer, and television personality
- Victoria Beckhamb. 1974GBEnglish businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
- Kat Denningsb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1986)
- Victoria Azarenkab. 1989BYBelarusian tennis player
- Princess Eugenie of Yorkb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameyounger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
- Victoria Justiceb. 1993USAmerican actress and singer (born 1993)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 160 sources across 79 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 452K | #100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 81K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81K | #379 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 45K | #844 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 35K | #29 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 672 | #100 |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Victoria come from?
- Latin ‘victory’; introduced into Ireland from England, later popular, now reviving. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Victoria a male or female name?
- Victoria is a female 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 Victoria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Виктория in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Victoria most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Victoria is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 97 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Victoria mean?
- In English, The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
- How common is the name Victoria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 452,646 people named Victoria in 2020, about 1 in 735 residents.
- How common is Victoria compared with other names?
- In Russia, Victoria is the 39th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Victoria?
- In the etymology graph, Viktoriia, Latoya and Viktoria are forms of the same name in other languages; Vicki, Vickie and Vicky are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Victoria?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪktɔːɹiə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Victoria?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/victoriaThe 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, “Victoria” — the 39th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.