Vikram
Vikram was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,936 among boys’ names; 2,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Vikram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vikram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vikram mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vikram is “a male given name.”
From Hindi विक्रम (vikram), from Sanskrit विक्रम (vikrama).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vikram?
#2,936 among boys’ names, 2025
Vikram fell from #2,914 in 2015 to #2,936 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 25.2 per million.
65 babies in 2000, the peak
Vikram peaked in 2000, when 65 boys were given it, #1,735 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,936 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,312 | 36.0 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,312 | 35.7 |
| 2022 | 55 | #2,513 | 31.5 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,643 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,198 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 52 | #2,553 | 29.0 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,841 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,491 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,435 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,914 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,295 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,361 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,674 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,995 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,424 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,520 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,626 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,561 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,618 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,177 | 28.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,368 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,097 | 27.3 |
| 2002 | 62 | #1,844 | 31.9 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,080 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,735 | 33.1 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,094 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,645 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,087 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,106 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,491 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,609 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,289 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,400 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,673 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,364 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,346 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,246 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,208 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,870 | 17.9 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,540 | 23.3 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,794 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,671 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,995 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,498 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,725 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,831 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,919 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,658 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,503 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,646 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,936 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,482 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,722 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,890 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,407 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,582 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vikram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vikram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vikram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vikram, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,084 Americans ever recorded as Vikram. The median Vikram alive today is 21 years old; half are between 11 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,452 people named Vikram (6 women and girls, 4,446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 477 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 775 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 636 |
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 Vikram born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,573 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,150 | 0.5× |
Where Vikram is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vikram is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 1.8 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 Vikram 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 Vikram
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 Vikram and names like it
- Compare Vikram and SioneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVikram peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vikram since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Vikram.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vikram alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.