# Viktor (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/viktor/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,634 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,634 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 739, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 151 | 1,177 |
| 2012 | 125 | 1,358 |
| 2013 | 126 | 1,351 |
| 2014 | 163 | 1,162 |
| 2015 | 146 | 1,246 |
| 2016 | 162 | 1,179 |
| 2017 | 168 | 1,137 |
| 2018 | 179 | 1,099 |
| 2019 | 152 | 1,243 |
| 2020 | 115 | 1,486 |
| 2021 | 140 | 1,331 |
| 2022 | 163 | 1,216 |
| 2023 | 150 | 1,287 |
| 2024 | 154 | 1,284 |
| 2025 | 162 | 1,238 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 743 |
| 2012 | 40 | 793 |
| 2013 | 42 | 762 |
| 2014 | 37 | 825 |
| 2015 | 52 | 656 |
| 2016 | 53 | 659 |
| 2017 | 42 | 786 |
| 2018 | 47 | 721 |
| 2019 | 41 | 768 |
| 2020 | 40 | 781 |
| 2021 | 34 | 888 |
| 2022 | 37 | 844 |
| 2023 | 30 | 987 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,517 |
| 2025 | 33 | 934 |

## People named Viktor

- Viktor Yushchenko, 3rd President of Ukraine
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
- Viktor Dyk, Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931)
- Viktor Fischer, Danish association football player
- Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
- Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
- Viktor Klima, Austrian politician and businessman (born 1947)
- Viktor Brack, German economist and Nazi party functionary, convicted war criminal (1904-1948)
- Viktor Ullmann, Austrian composer  deported to Terezin (1898–1944)
- Viktor Kaplan, Austrian-Czech engineer and inventor
- Viktor Ruban, archer
- Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian communist revolutionary (1888-1922)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.