Victoria

Where Victoria comes from

From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. The given name can also be analyzed as the male name Victor + -ia. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
— Wiktionary's entry for Victoria
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1819
    Victoria born
    Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #148 among girls — 93 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1974
    Victoria Beckham born
    English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
  4. 1998
    Peak, #16
    12,148 babies named Victoria — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #34.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Victoria · Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, 1819–1901
  • Victoria Beckham · English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer, born 1974
  • Victoria Justice · American actress and singer, born 1993
  • Victoria Abril · Spanish actress, born 1959
  • Victoria Woodhull · American suffragist, editor, 1838–1927

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.