Vicky
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of ) Victoria
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vicky is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.3K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.4K
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 Vicky 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #605 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 538 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
124,993 named Vicki, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vicki in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)
Pet form of ) Victoria. Variants: Vickie, Vicki, Vikki. Viola ° From Latin vidla ‘violet’. The name is relatively common in Italy and was used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, where most of the characters have Italianate names. Its modern use in English has been influenced by the vocabulary word denoting the somewhat larger flower (a single-coloured pansy).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vicky 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #275 | 124,993as Vicki | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Vicki | 538 |
| GB United Kingdom | #235 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 6 | Vicky | 274 |
| PH Philippines | #885 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Vicky | 84 |
| AU Australia | #162 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 80 | Vicki | 229 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Vicky | 52 |
| CA Canada | #235 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1 | Vicki | 222 |
| BE Belgium | #683 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 10 | Vicky | 101 |
| NZ New Zealand | #149 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 14 | Vicki | 142 |
| SG Singapore | #251 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Vicki | 87 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,746 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.7K | Vicky | 23 |
124,993 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INEC — civil registry 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)
Vicky is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, also used as a formal given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., englische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: pet form of VICTORIA . Variants: Vickie, Vicki, Vikki .
as a word
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)
- Vicky Hernándezb. 1945COColombian actress
- Vicky Leandrosb. 1949GRGreek singer
- Vicky Hartzlerb. 1960USU.S. Representative from Missouri
- Vicky Jensonb. 1960USAmerican animator (born 1960)
- Vicky Vetteb. 1965NONorwegian-Canadian pornographic actress
- Vicky Fordb. 1967GBBritish politician (born 1967)
- Vicky Papadopouloub. 1982GRGreek actress and model
- Vicky Kriepsb. 1983LULuxembourgian-German actress (born 1983)
- Vicky McClureb. 1983GBBritish actress (born 1983)
- Vicky Kaushalb. 1988INIndian actor
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)
Attested in 78 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #902 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.7K | #673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 402 | #902 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1994 | 11 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2021 | 5 | #1,392 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2004 | 5 | #273 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2015 | 3 | #806 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What are other forms of the name Vicky?
- In the etymology graph, Vicki, Vickie and Latoya are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Victoria.
- How common is the name Vicky?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,746 people named Vicky in 2024, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Vicky compared with other names?
- In the United States, Vicky is the 275th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Vicky mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of ) Victoria.
- Where does the name Vicky come from?
- Pet form of ) Victoria. Variants: Vickie, Vicki, Vikki. Viola ° From Latin vidla ‘violet’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Vicky a male or female name?
- Vicky 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.
- How do you pronounce Vicky?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪki/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vicky have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 125 thousand people named Vicki, more than in any other country we hold.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vickyThe 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, “Vicky” — the 275th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.