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Vic

Boys' name

Short form of Victor

Vic has been given to 2,155 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Vic, 2023

1 in 474,000

Vic over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vic: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Victor

English

What Vic means

Vic is a short form of Victor.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Vic is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɪk/ for Vic.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Vic → Victor. The family’s meaning is “conqueror”, recorded in English with the source elements victor.

Origin, language, and formation

Vic is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Victor and Victoria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vic is pronounced /vɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,155 boys were recorded with the name Vic between 1899 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1958; its best national rank was #846 in 1958.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vic?

Vic had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vic sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vic. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vic was born before 1959 — so the typical Vic is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,528
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (512).

Is Vic rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (80)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#846
1958

Where Vic is used

Across 1910–2025, Vic was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 222,057 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vic has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vic around the world

Where Vic ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2002–2014
    #5,237
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2014–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1954–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Vic

People whose public names include Vic, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vic in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vic. Linked forms have their own page here.

Vik

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vic by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#846
1958
Peak year
1958
80 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,155
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vic

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Vic

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vic, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RoddyDonnaSusanKenneyLesDarelMelMauryDelKarenLennieRandle

Sibling names for Vic

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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