Wiktor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Victor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vʲikt̪ɔr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wiktor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 325(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 65as Віктор
- PEPeru≈1 in 108as Victor
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 Wiktor 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)
- #28 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 603 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 named Виктор, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Victor in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 3 more, Виктор in RU Russia and Віктор in UA Ukraine.
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Victor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wiktor 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 | #26 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | #7 | Виктор | 229 |
| UA Ukraine | #19 | ≈680,000 est. | ≈1 in 65 | listed | Віктор | 137 |
| NG Nigeria | #28 | ≈670,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | — | Victor | 181 |
| BR Brazil | #73 | 489,038as Vitor | 1 in 433 | 489K | Victor | 258 |
| US United States | #150 | 337,308as Victor | 1 in 986 | 337K | Victor | 603 |
| PE Peru | #15 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 238K | Victor | 160 |
| EC Ecuador | #20 | 139,916as Victor | 1 in 121 | 140K | Victor | 106 |
| PL Poland | #134 | 117,937 | 1 in 325 | 118K | Wiktor | 163 |
| MD Moldova | #254 | 59,421as Victor | 1 in 57 | 59K | Victor | 59 |
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; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Wiktor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Victor
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
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)
- Viktor Vasnetsovb. 1848RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1848-1926)
- Viktor Chernovb. 1873RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1873–1952)
- Viktor Shklovskyb. 1893RUnot in their usual nameSoviet Jewish writer
- Viktor Hambardzumyanb. 1908AMnot in their usual nameSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
- Viktor Lvovich Korchnoib. 1931CHnot in their usual nameSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- Viktor Chernomyrdinb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
- Viktor Zubkovb. 1941RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and businessman
- Viktor Saneyevb. 1945GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
- Viktor Yanukovychb. 1950UAnot in their usual namePresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
- Viktor Yushchenkob. 1954UAnot in their usual name3rd President of Ukraine
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 53 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 118K | #59 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 116K | #59 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 1.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 283 | #30,462 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #78,870 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 22 | #47,876 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 10 | #7,217 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #30,462 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 3 | #5,254 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2016 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 does the name Wiktor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Victor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Wiktor?
- In the etymology graph, Victor, Viktor and Víctor are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wiktor?
- A machine transcription gives /vʲikt̪ɔr/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Wiktor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Виктор in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wiktor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wiktor is densest in Poland — about 1 in 325 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Wiktor a male or female name?
- Wiktor is a male 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 common is the name Wiktor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 117,937 people named Wiktor in 2026, about 1 in 325 residents.
- How common is Wiktor compared with other names?
- In Russia, Wiktor is the 26th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiktorThe 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, “Wiktor” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.