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Vikram

#2,936 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Vikrama

Vikram has been given to 2,084 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,936 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Vikram, 2025

1 in 77,100

Vikram over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vikram: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Vikrama

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vikram means

Vikram is a form of Vikrama.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hindi विक्रम (vikram), from Sanskrit विक्रम (vikrama).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vikram is used in English.

Vikram comes through Hindi विक्रम and Sanskrit विक्रम.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vikrama.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,084 boys were recorded with the name Vikram between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,498 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,198 in 2020 to #2,936 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,914 in 2015 to #2,936 in 2025.

How common is Vikram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,936
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vikram 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vikram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vikrams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vikram was born before 2004 — so the typical Vikram is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,084
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (530).

Is Vikram 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
−624
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+262
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−22
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.2%
Peak was 2000 (65)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,498
1981

Spellings of Vikram

Vikram is not the most common spelling — Hiram is, with 67.7% against Vikram's 9.8%.

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 Vikram is used

Across 1910–2025, Vikram was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 107,285 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Vikram has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vikram around the world

Where Vikram 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
    1996–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #5,569
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Vikram

People whose public names include Vikram, 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.

Vikram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,936
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 262
Best rank ever
#1,498
1981
Peak year
2000
65 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,084
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Vikram

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

ViktorKaramAkramSriramAbhiramAvramVikrantBramAramBertramVikasParamIramVikashHiramAiramJoramEphramIngramRamAbramVikranthAmramShahram

Names with a curve like Vikram

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

AramisFaisalSalimJansenNaeemArenSkyeZachJairusKamranAminZacharias

Sibling names for Vikram

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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