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Vijay

#13,767 in 2025Boys' name

Leading to victory, proclaiming victory, through विजय

Vijay has been given to 1,495 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #13,767 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Vijay, 2025

1 in 663,000

Vijay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vijay: meaning, origin, and history

Leading to victory, proclaiming victory, through विजय

Sanskrit

What Vijay means

Vijay belongs to the name family reached through Vijay → विजय → विजय. Its meaning is “leading to victory, proclaiming victory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vijay is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vijay comes through Hindi विजय.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include व and विजय.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,495 boys were recorded with the name Vijay between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,393 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,921 in 2020 to #13,767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,031 in 2015 to #13,767 in 2025.

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 Vijay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,767
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vijay 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vijay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vijays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vijay was born before 1993 — so the typical Vijay is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,495
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (379).

Is Vijay 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+154
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,736
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.2%
Peak was 2006 (49)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,393
1982

Spellings of Vijay

Vijay is not the most common spelling — Jay is, with 91.4% against Vijay's 0.70%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vijay is used

Across 1910–2025, Vijay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 170,015 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Vijay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vijay around the world

Where Vijay 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 & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1985–1985
    #311
    in 1985
  • France
    1981–2024
    #5,510
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1965–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vijay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 154
Best rank ever
#1,393
1982
Peak year
2006
49 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,495
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Vijay

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

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Sibling names for Vijay

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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