Vijay
Vijay was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,767 among boys’ names; 1,495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Vijay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vijay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vijay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vijay is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi विजय (vijay).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vijay?
#13,767 among boys’ names, 2025
Vijay fell from #7,031 in 2015 to #13,767 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 2.9 per million.
49 babies in 2006, the peak
Vijay peaked in 2006, when 49 boys were given it, #2,510 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,767 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,734 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,779 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,920 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,678 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,612 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,101 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,563 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 12 | #7,031 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,705 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #8,731 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,702 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,180 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,227 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,780 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,215 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,303 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,510 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,460 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,414 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,666 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,677 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,787 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,323 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,259 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,500 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,897 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,432 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,288 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,757 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,899 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,399 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,597 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,159 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,532 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,942 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,051 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,613 | 22.3 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,670 | 20.6 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,653 | 19.9 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,785 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,393 | 25.9 |
| 1981 | 37 | #1,627 | 20.7 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,473 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,786 | 18.6 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,567 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #1,512 | 23.1 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,050 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,061 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,123 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,212 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,948 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,648 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,705 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,544 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,352 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,542 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,512 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,409 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,593 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vijay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vijay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vijay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vijay, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,495 Americans ever recorded as Vijay. The median Vijay alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 8,323 people named Vijay (421 women and girls, 7,902 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.9 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 269 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 524 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 531 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
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 Vijay born?
The states with the most babies named Vijay are New York, California and New Jersey, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 148 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Vijay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vijay is most over-represented in New York: since 1963 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Vijay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vijay
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 Vijay and names like it
- Compare Vijay and TerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVijay peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vijay since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vijay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Vijay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vijay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.