Victory

Where Victory comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Victory.

  • Vowel-ended
Victory through the years
  1. 1865
    Victory Bateman born
    American stage and film actress
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1918
    Peak, #809
    78 babies named Victory, the most in any year.
  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 on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

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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.