as a First Name
Feminine form of the Latin name Victorius (a derivative of Victor), also perhaps a direct use of Latin victoria ‘victory’. It was little known in England until the accession in 1837 of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), who got it from her German mother, Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. It did not begin to be a popular name among commoners in Britain until the 1940s, reaching a peak in the 1990s.
| 188th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 320,884
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 426,084
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Victoria per capita
- 1993
- marked the height of its popularity
99.96%
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15%
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55+
21%
30-54
30-54
25%
13-29
13-29
39%
0-12
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