Vijay
Vijay is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 2,477th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,400 Vijays are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Vijay
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,495
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 2,477th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Vijays are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,495 babies given the name since 1963, about 1,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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 Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vijays
- Vijay Mallya (born 1955)Indian businessman and former Member of Parliament
- Vijay Amritraj (born 1953)Indian tennis player
- Vijay Singh (born 1963)Fijian-Indian professional golfer
- Vijay Rupani (1956–2025)Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021
- Vijay Kumar (born 1985)Indian sport shooter
- Vijay Sethupathi (born 1978)Indian actor and Indian film producer
- Vijay Deverakonda (born 1989)Indian actor
- Vijay Shankar (born 1991)Indian cricketer
People named Vijay with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vijay is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vijay is most concentrated in New York (5.1×), California (3.6×), New Jersey (3.0×), Illinois (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Vijay peaked:
Vijay elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Vijay | 178 | 784th |
| France boys | Vijay | 110 | 5,510th |
| Scotland boys | Vijay | 3 | 311th |
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.
Vijay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Vijay | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
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.