Vicky
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of ) Victoria (A concise dictionary of first names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 45 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈvɪki/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Vicky is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Vicky is also written ויקי in Hebrew, Вики in Cyrillic and 비키 in Korean (Hangul).
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.7K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5.6K
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. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #605 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 538 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vicky in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Cyrillic and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vicki in US United States, AU Australia, NZ New Zealand 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.
How to pronounce Vicky
- English:/ˈvɪki/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/bici/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Vicky, 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)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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 929 | Vicky | 179 |
| US United States | #275 | 124,993as Vicki | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Vicki | 538 |
| GB United Kingdom | #235 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 6 | Vicky | 274 |
| PH Philippines | #885 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Vicky | 84 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Vicky | 52 |
| AU Australia | #162 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 80 | Vicki | 229 |
| BE Belgium | #683 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 10 | Vicky | 101 |
| HU Hungary | #551 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Vicki | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | #149 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 14 | Vicki | 142 |
| SG Singapore | #251 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Vicki | 87 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,746 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.7K | Vicky | 23 |
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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 Leandrosb. 1949GRGreek singer
- Vicky Hartzlerb. 1960USU.S. Representative from Missouri
- Vicky Jensonb. 1960USAmerican animator (born 1960)
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)78 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 45 countries.
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 New Zealand, Vicky is the 149th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
- Is Vicky a male or female name?
- Vicky is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Vicky?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈvɪki/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /bici/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Vicky?
- Mondonomo estimates about 133 thousand people named Vicky in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vicky. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Philippines and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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” — ranked 5820th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.