Victor

Where Victor comes from

From a Late Latin personal name Victor, borne by several saints, from victor (“conqueror”). Doublet of victor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Victor
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1871
    Victor Grignard born
    French chemist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #135 among boys — 100 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Victor Francis Hess born
    Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate
  4. 1918
    Peak, #63
    3,183 babies named Victor — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #116.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Victor Francis Hess · Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate, 1883–1964
  • Victor I · Pope and Bishop of Rome from 189 to 199, died 199
  • Victor Grignard · French chemist, 1871–1935
  • Victor II · pope, died 1057
  • Victor III · head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087, 1027–1087

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.