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Vic

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Vic is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 847th, in 1958.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
195880 births
Best rank
#847in 1958
Since 1899
2,155people given the name
Babies named Vic, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,155 boys have been named Vic in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 80 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 80 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Vic
1890s7
1910s10
1920s86
1930s156
1940s368
1950s463
1960s512
1970s195
1980s88
1990s56
2000s74
2010s106
2020s34

In 1958, its biggest year

Vic was the 847th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.

Names that rose and fell with Vic

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.