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Vijaya

Girls' name

Leading to victory, proclaiming victory, through विजय

Vijaya has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Vijaya, 1989

1 in 768,000

Vijaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vijaya: meaning, origin, and history

Leading to victory, proclaiming victory, through विजय

Sanskrit

What Vijaya means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Vijaya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vijaya comes through Sanskrit विजय.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विजय.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Vijaya between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #14,477 in 1989.

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 Vijaya?

Vijaya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 368,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vijaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 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 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vijaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vijayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vijaya was born before 1989 — so the typical Vijaya is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Vijaya 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (5)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,477
1989

Spellings of Vijaya

Vijaya is not the most common spelling — Jaya is, with 35.1% against Vijaya's 0.04%.

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.

Vijaya around the world

Where Vijaya 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
    2016–2016
    #7,836
    in 2016

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Vijaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#14,477
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vijaya

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

ArlayaIraayaRinayaDarayaOnarayaSihayaZurayaMacayaLotayaTelayaJelayaTazayaTyrayaNicayaRonayaTomayaJinayaSymayaCasayaJemayaKymayaJniayaZimayaChaaya

Sibling names for Vijaya

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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