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Viktor

#1,238 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Victor

Viktor has been given to 3,634 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #1,238 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Viktor, 2025

1 in 20,500

Viktor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viktor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Victor

Latin

What Viktor means

Viktor is a form of Victor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Viktor → Victor. The family’s meaning is “conqueror”, recorded in English with the source elements victor.

Origin, language, and formation

Viktor is used in English, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, German and Hungarian and additional language sections. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Victor, Ві́ктор and Ви́ктор.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Viktor is pronounced [ˈvɪktor].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,634 boys were recorded with the name Viktor between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 179 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,099 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,486 in 2020 to #1,238 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,246 in 2015 to #1,238 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 Viktor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,500
162 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,238
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,186 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Viktor 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,186 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viktor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Viktors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viktor was born before 2014 — so the typical Viktor is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,634
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (1,518).

Is Viktor 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+248
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.5%
Peak was 2018 (179)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,099
2018

Spellings of Viktor

Viktor is not the most common spelling — Victor is, with 94.2% against Viktor's 1.0%.

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 Viktor is used

Across 2016–2025, Viktor was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 12,800 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 7,143
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 7,143
  4. 4Ohio1 in 7,692
  5. 5Florida1 in 8,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 10,000
  7. 7New York1 in 11,111
  8. 8California1 in 12,500

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.

Viktor around the world

Where Viktor 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
    #934
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #421
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2005–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • France
    1987–2025
    #614
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #63
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #529
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Viktor

People whose public names include Viktor, 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.

Viktor in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Viktor. Linked forms have their own page here.

VictorWiktorVittorioVictorinoVikkeVítorBittorViktarVíctorVictoríVihtoriViktoroViktorsVittoreVictorinViktoras

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Viktor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,238
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 248
Best rank ever
#1,099
2018
Peak year
2018
179 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,634
Count in 2025
162

Names similar to Viktor

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

VikramNestorVikrantCastorHeitorVikasAstorAlastorVikashHectorDoctorEctorTorVikranthSalvatorAitorPastorVictorProctorRectorHektorVitorGatorWiktor

Names with a curve like Viktor

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

CormacPiersonJetKorbynZephaniahOskarGianlucaYaseenKooperJaelRayyanPhineas

Sibling names for Viktor

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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