In 2025, 4,027 US girls were named Victoria, making it the 54th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #48 in 2024. That is 254 fewer than the 4,281 girls named Victoria in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #16, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12,925, in 1993. For comparison, it was #20 in 2015 and #94 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Victoria in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 93 babies with the name. In all, 529,191 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 117,721 babies named Victoria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 55,717 US girls were named Victoria; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7,329. In 2025 that was about 1 in 399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Victoria ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #20 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 25 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Vicky (53,983 babies since 1880), Viktoria (2,659 babies since 1880), Vittoria (1,624 babies since 1880) and Victory (2,459 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Victorine, Victorya and Victorio are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tori, Torie, Torri, Torrie, Tory and Vic.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.