Viktor
Viktor was given to 162 boys in 2025, #1,238 among boys’ names; 3,634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,570 Americans named Viktor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Viktor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Viktor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Viktor is “a transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Ви́ктор (Víktor).”
Also “a transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ві́ктор (Víktor).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Viktor?
#1,238 among boys’ names, 2025
Viktor rose from #1,246 in 2015 to #1,238 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 76.2 to 94.8 per million.
179 babies in 2018, the peak
Viktor peaked in 2018, when 179 boys were given it, #1,099 among boys’ names. The 162 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,238 | 94.8 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,284 | 89.4 |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,287 | 87.7 |
| 2022 | 163 | #1,216 | 93.4 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,331 | 80.0 |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,486 | 66.6 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,243 | 84.7 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,099 | 98.6 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,137 | 90.8 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,179 | 85.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 146 | #1,246 | 76.2 |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,162 | 84.9 |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,351 | 66.6 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,358 | 65.9 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,177 | 79.5 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,218 | 76.1 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,423 | 60.0 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,503 | 53.4 |
| 2007 | 102 | #1,550 | 49.1 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,595 | 44.8 |
| 2005 | 90 | #1,566 | 45.1 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,697 | 38.3 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,261 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,061 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,788 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,570 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,856 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,084 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,727 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,325 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,549 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,678 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,354 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,658 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,461 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,762 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,794 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,511 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,428 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,791 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,448 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,196 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,571 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,239 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,919 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,027 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,743 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,568 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,647 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,170 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,483 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,723 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,213 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,007 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,353 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,219 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,513 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,525 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,845 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,843 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,609 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,652 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,525 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,374 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,308 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Viktor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Viktor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Viktor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Viktor, and how old are they?
3,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,634 Americans ever recorded as Viktor. The median Viktor alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 7,931 people named Viktor (14 women and girls, 7,917 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,734 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 86 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 241 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,970 |
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 Viktor born?
The states with the most babies named Viktor are Florida, California and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #884 | 1.0× |
| California | 11 | #1,574 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,749 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,010 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 8 | #707 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,127 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,089 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 7 | #962 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #711 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,743 | 0.9× |
Where Viktor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Viktor is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1953 it was given 1.3 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 Viktor 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 335,854 babies since 1880, Viktor is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 1,826 babies (8.9%), 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 Viktor
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 Viktor and names like it
- Compare Viktor and VictorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sViktor peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Viktor since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Viktor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Viktor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.