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Vicie vs Victoria

American parents have registered 529,191 Victorias since 1880, against 755 Vicies. Victoria is still ahead, with 4,027 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vicie against Victoria, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vicie Victoria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Victoria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1897, when Vicie had 12 and Victoria had 234.

Side by side

  Vicie Victoria
Total US births 755529,191
Most in one year 3112,958
Babies in 2025 under 54,027
Estimated living today 130466,000
Median age today 7430
Peak year 19201993
Best rank 1,439th girls19th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked54th
First recorded 18841880
Girls / boys 755 / 0527,915 / 1,276

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vicies alive today are over 74; half the Victorias are over 30. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vicie and Victoria.