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Vickii vs Victoria

American parents have registered 529,191 Victorias since 1880, against 139 Vickiis. Victoria is still ahead, with 4,027 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vickii 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 1948, when Vickii had 30 and Victoria had 3,137.

Side by side

  Vickii Victoria
Total US births 139529,191
Most in one year 3012,958
Babies in 2025 under 54,027
Estimated living today 110466,000
Median age today 7130
Peak year 19481993
Best rank 1,708th girls19th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked54th
First recorded 19481880
Girls / boys 139 / 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 Vickiis alive today are over 71; half the Victorias are over 30. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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