Victoria

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Victoria is ranked 48th among girls in 2024 (4,267 births). Its best rank was 16th, in 1998–1999.

Rank in 2024: #48down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,2670.26% of girls
Peak year: 199312,926 births
Best rank: #16first in 1998
Since 1880: 525,116people given the name

Babies named Victoria, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

523,840 girls have been named Victoria in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 12,926 births — 0.71% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 19 → 48).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 22%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 61 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,276 boys have also been given it, 0.24% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	girls named Victoria
1880s	1,440
1890s	2,479
1900s	3,692
1910s	10,766
1920s	10,547
1930s	6,204
1940s	20,752
1950s	49,126
1960s	37,732
1970s	30,883
1980s	53,273
1990s	117,474
2000s	84,961
2010s	71,006
2020s	23,505

In 1993, its biggest year

Victoria was the 19th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.

Names that rose and fell with Victoria

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

Other spellings in the data

Viktoria2,599 ever

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.