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Vikas

Boys' name

Development, growth, through विकास

Vikas has been given to 519 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1983, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Vikas, 2013

1 in 405,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vikas: meaning, origin, and history

Development, growth, through विकास

Sanskrit

What Vikas means

Vikas belongs to the name family reached through Vikas → विकास. Its meaning is “development, growth”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindi विकास (vikās), from Sanskrit विकास (vikāsa).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vikas (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vikas is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vikas comes through Hindi विकास and Sanskrit विकास.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विकास.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 519 boys were recorded with the name Vikas between 1970 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1983; its best national rank was #2,335 in 1983.

How common is Vikas?

Vikas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 405,000
9 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
280,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vikas 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 2013 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 280,798 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vikas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vikass were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Vikas 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (22)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,335
1983

Spellings of Vikas

Vikas is not the most common spelling — Silas is, with 51.4% against Vikas's 0.35%.

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 Vikas is used

Across 1910–2025, Vikas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,785,955 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Vikas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vikas around the world

Where Vikas 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
    1998–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1993–1996
    #1,974
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vikas 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
#2,335
1983
Peak year
1983
22 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
519
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vikas

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

VikramVikrantLoukasViktorVikashVikranthMarkasLuckasLukasRokasKasVikeshVikyathLukkasVikhyathEkasLuukasVikramjitDemarkasDominykasVikramaditya

Sibling names for Vikas

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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