Victoria
Victoria is a girl's name that peaked in 1993, when it was the 19th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 54th. About 466,000 Victorias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Victoria boys named Victoria
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 529,191
- Estimated living today
- 466,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 19th
- Rank in 2025
- 54th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 527,915 / 1,276
How old the living Victorias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 529,191 babies given the name since 1880, about 466,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 111,000 of them are children and 57,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). The given name can also be analyzed as the male name. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Victorias
- Victoria (1819–1901)Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901
- Victoria Beckham (born 1974)English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
- Victoria Azarenka (born 1989)Belarusian tennis player
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (born 1977)heir apparent to the Swedish throne and eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf
- Victoria Justice (born 1993)American actress and singer
- Victoria Abril (born 1959)Spanish actress
- Victoria Amelina (1986–2023)Ukrainian writer and activist
- Victoria Silvstedt (born 1974)Swedish model, actress, singer, and television personality
People named Victoria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Victoria is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Victoria is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.6×), Florida (1.6×), Arizona (1.6×), Nevada (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Victoria peaked:
Victoria elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Victoria | 47,440 | 34th |
| England and Wales girls | Victoria | 19,894 | 34th |
| Spain girls | Victoria | 19,467 | 47th |
| Denmark girls | Victoria | 8,051 | 12th |
| Italy girls | Victoria | 7,504 | — |
| Norway girls | Victoria | 7,299 | 15th |
| Poland girls | Victoria | 7,233 birth registrations | 59th |
| Scotland girls | Victoria | 6,666 | 16th |
| Belgium girls | Victoria | 6,469 | 18th |
| Austria girls | Victoria | 5,066 | 24th |
| New Zealand girls | Victoria | 4,911 | 44th |
| Ireland girls | Victoria | 3,574 | 92nd |
| Switzerland girls | Victoria | 2,606 | 42nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Victoria | 872 | 25th |
| France boys | Victoria | 5 | 3,878th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Victoria: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Victoria | 1,233 | 0.099% | 64th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Victoria | 1,260 | 0.290% | 8th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Victoria | 107 | 0.164% | 27th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Victoria | 6 | 0.161% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Victoria is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.38% of children were given it – 393 of them.
Victoria: rank by region
In 2025, Victoria was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Victoria | 100 | 53 |
| Wallonia | Victoria | 6 | 147 |
| Brussels | Victoria | 18 | 29 |
In 2022, Victoria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Rioja | Victoria | 9 | 12 |
In 2023, Victoria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Victoria | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, Victoria was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Victoria | 169 | 4 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Victoria | 167 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Victoria | 124 | 3 |
| Lubuskie | Victoria | 139 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Victoria | 151 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Victoria | 150 | 6 |
| Mazowieckie | Victoria | 150 | 11 |
| Podkarpackie | Victoria | 126 | 4 |
| Podlaskie | Victoria | 96 | 4 |
| Pomorskie | Victoria | 126 | 7 |
| Śląskie | Victoria | 133 | 9 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Victoria | 80 | 5 |
| Wielkopolskie | Victoria | 191 | 4 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Victoria | 148 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Victoria appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (4th), Province of Liège (4th), Province of Namur (4th), Province of Hainaut (6th), Brussels-Capital Region (18th), Province of Flemish Brabant (37th), Province of Luxembourg (46th), Province of Limburg (94th), Province of West Flanders (103rd), Province of East Flanders (123rd) and Province of Antwerp (182nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Victoria by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 311 | 71st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Victoria among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Victoria | 1,580 | 6,127 |
| Finland girls | Victoria | 1,146 | 3,736 |
| the Netherlands boys | Victoria | — | 31 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Victoria lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 60,024 women called Victoria were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Victoria | 780 | 3.981 | 49 |
| Córdoba | Victoria | 1,441 | 3.646 | 59 |
| Ávila | Victoria | 270 | 3.376 | 65 |
| Málaga | Victoria | 3,007 | 3.281 | 59 |
| Badajoz | Victoria | 1,100 | 3.264 | 73 |
| Segovia | Victoria | 257 | 3.260 | 60 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Victoria against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.