Victory
Victory is given to both girls and boys: 33 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,346 among girls’ names and #4,526 among boys’, #5,264 among all names counting both); 2,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Victory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Victory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Victory?
#4,346 among girls’ names, 2025
Victory fell from #3,476 in 2015 to #4,346 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 20.5 per million.
99 babies in 1918, the peak
Victory peaked in 1918, when 99 babies were given it (78 girls, #814 among girls’ names). The 56 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,346 | 23 | #4,526 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,888 | 18 | #5,424 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,323 | 13 | #6,861 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,164 | 21 | #4,832 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,709 | 25 | #4,225 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,596 | 11 | #7,460 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,707 | 13 | #6,742 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,867 | 15 | #6,013 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,300 | 21 | #4,733 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,322 | 16 | #5,773 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,476 | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2014 | 57 | #3,001 | 12 | #7,018 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,458 | 9 | #8,729 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,848 | 12 | #7,007 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,909 | 13 | #6,548 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,200 | 11 | #7,551 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,748 | 8 | #9,809 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,543 | 12 | #7,153 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,695 | 9 | #8,870 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,223 | 5 | #13,913 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,230 | 10 | #7,607 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,237 | 10 | #7,494 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,797 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,800 | 11 | #6,497 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,979 | 6 | #10,485 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,009 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,822 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,052 | 7 | #8,425 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,470 | 12 | #5,265 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,515 | 6 | #8,953 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,938 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,834 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,028 | 7 | #7,593 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,488 | 6 | #8,380 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,566 | 8 | #6,492 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,373 | 5 | #9,424 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,646 | 5 | #9,164 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,670 | 6 | #7,228 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,196 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,507 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,642 | 7 | #5,749 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,128 | 7 | #5,529 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,293 | 6 | #6,195 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,476 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,309 | 6 | #6,230 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #4,124 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,536 | 10 | #3,841 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,138 | 6 | #5,557 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,974 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #4,169 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,411 | 5 | #5,848 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,420 | |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,403 | 7 | #4,212 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,954 | 5 | #5,006 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,627 | 10 | #2,897 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,954 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,258 | 11 | #2,620 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,817 | 8 | #3,235 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,748 | 10 | #2,844 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,885 | 12 | #2,531 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,434 | 10 | #2,841 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,500 | 11 | #2,698 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,651 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 10 | #2,812 | |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,509 | 5 | #4,483 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,305 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,184 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,470 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,361 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,300 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,217 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,354 | 18 | #1,628 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,802 | 7 | #3,095 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,273 | 15 | #1,984 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,115 | 13 | #2,141 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,916 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,944 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #4,008 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,134 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,621 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,253 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,247 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,390 | 5 | #4,690 |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #4,192 | |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,813 | 5 | #4,799 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,408 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,644 | 5 | #4,929 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,142 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,724 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,696 | 8 | #3,378 |
| 1918 | 78 | #814 | 21 | #1,704 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,240 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,531 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,207 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,494 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Victory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,459 Americans recorded as Victory, 72% are girls and 28% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Victory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Victory, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,459 Americans ever recorded as Victory. The median Victory alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,091 people named Victory (1,529 women and girls, 562 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 108 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 116 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 226 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 878 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Victory born?
The states with the most babies named Victory are Texas, California and New York, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 139 | #3,760 | 0.7× |
| California | 82 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 30 | #2,465 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Victory with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 532,791 babies since 1880, Victory is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 4,092 babies (1.4%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Victory
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Victory and names like it
- Compare Victory and VictoriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVictory peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Victory since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Victory.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Victory alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.