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Viktoria

Viktoria is a girl's name that peaked in 2015, when it was the 1,831st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,859th. About 2,600 Viktorias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Viktoria

By the numbers

Total US births
2,659
Estimated living today
2,600
Median age today
16
Peak year
2015
Best rank
1,831st
Rank in 2025
2,859th
First recorded
1950

How old the living Viktorias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,659 babies given the name since 1950, about 2,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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.

Notable Viktorias

People named Viktoria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Viktoria is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Viktoria is most concentrated in Florida (3.0×), California (2.9×), Illinois (2.7×), Washington (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular girls’ names the year Viktoria peaked:

All the names of 2015

Viktoria elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Austria girls Viktoria 8,959 23rd
Sweden girls Viktoria 3,032 36th
Poland girls Viktoria +1 spelling 2,570 birth registrations 99th
Norway girls Viktoria 1,606 109th
Italy girls Viktoria 1,227
England and Wales girls Viktoria 710 673rd
France girls Viktoria 680 1,008th
Switzerland girls Viktoria +1 spelling 501 270th
Belgium girls Viktoria 192 521st
Ireland girls Viktoria 137 295th
Scotland girls Viktoria 39 465th
Northern Ireland girls Viktoria 9 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.

Viktoria: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Viktoria 385 0.031% 204th
German girls Switzerland Viktória 23 0.002% 881st
French girls Switzerland Viktoria 61 0.014% 312th
French girls Switzerland Viktória 1 0.000% 862nd
Italian girls Switzerland Viktoria 31 0.048% 71st

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, Viktoria is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 31 of them.

Viktoria: rank by region

In 2023, Viktoria was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Viktoria 379 7

In 2025, Viktoria was given 2 times or more in 9 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Viktoria 234 2
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Viktoria 167 2
Małopolskie Viktoria 194 3
Mazowieckie Viktoria 145 12
Podkarpackie Viktoria 158 2
Pomorskie Viktoria 180 3
Śląskie Viktoria 197 4
Wielkopolskie Viktoria 165 5
Zachodniopomorskie Viktoria 98 6

In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Viktoria appears in the lists for Province of Liège (184th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.

Viktoria by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 223 92nd

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Viktoria 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 girls Viktoria +1 spelling 427 1,887

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,887 who carry it, 427 go by it.

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.

Where Viktoria lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 758 women called Viktoria 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
Segovia Viktoria 8 0.101 766
Alicante/Alacant Viktoria 85 0.083 925
Málaga Viktoria 74 0.081 844
Balears, Illes Viktoria 42 0.067 1,046
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Viktoria 35 0.063 1,286
Navarra Viktoria 19 0.055 1,217

Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Viktoria against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.