Victory
#4,346 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Victory has been given to 2,459 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #4,346 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 78 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.
Babies named Victory, 2025
1 in 100,000
Victory over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Victory over time
In 2025, Victory went to 59% girls and 41% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Victory?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 100,000
- 33 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 48,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,346
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 69,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Victory sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Victory. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Victorys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Victory was born before 2008 — so the typical Victory is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,414
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (502).
Is Victory 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
- −458
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,750
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −870
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.72×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.3%
- Peak was 1918 (78)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.1% average annual change
Spellings of Victory
Victory is not the most common spelling — Victoria is, with 99.2% against Victory's 0.33%.
Where Victory is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Victory was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 228,966 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Victory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Victory is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Victory was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,658,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Victory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Victory around the world
Where Victory 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.
- England & Wales2000–2025#3,333in 2025
- Ireland2004–2004#576in 2004
- France1995–2025#5,999in 2025
- Canada2009–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Victory by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Victory
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Victory
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.