Victory

girls’ name · 72%boys’ name · 28%SteadyCompare

Victory is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 814th, in 1918.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 390.00% of girls
Peak year: 191878 births
Best rank: #814in 1918
Since 1898: 2,402people given the name

Babies named Victory, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

1,725 girls have been named Victory in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 78 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 29%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Victory is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are boys (677), most of them born around 2021.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	girls named Victory
1890s	7
1900s	13
1910s	111
1920s	56
1940s	158
1950s	41
1960s	68
1970s	41
1980s	70
1990s	142
2000s	247
2010s	501
2020s	270

In 1918, its biggest year

Victory was the 814th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.

Names that rose and fell with Victory

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.