Victory

Where Victory comes from

Victory hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1865
    Victory Bateman born
    American stage and film actress
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1918
    Peak, #809
    78 babies named Victory — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1919
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,649.
  5. 1959
    Victory Tischler-Blue born
    American musician and filmmaker
  6. 1986
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Victory Bateman · American stage and film actress, 1865–1926
  • Victory Tischler-Blue · American musician and filmmaker, born 1959
  • Victory Birdseye · American politician, 1782–1853

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.