Victoria — #48 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Victoria

The Social Security Administration has registered 523,840 babies named Victoria between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Victoria currently holds the #48 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 12,926 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Victoria performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 117,474 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Victoria shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 70,713 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Victoria in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Victoria in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 523,840 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.