Victory
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to girls 71.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1918 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,759since 1898
Victory over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #2,580 | 66 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #2,681 | 64 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #2,841 | 59 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #2,730 | 66 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | #1,332 | 36 | #1,581 | 18 |
| 1944 | #1,742 | 23 | #2,862 | 7 |
| 1943 | #1,251 | 42 | #1,910 | 15 |
| 1942 | #1,101 | 51 | #2,042 | 13 |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | — | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,649 | 24 | #3,115 | 8 |
| 1918 | #809 | 78 | #1,648 | 21 |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 | — | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,420 | 8 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | #1,379 | 7 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Victory! It came in at #1,379, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1899–1904, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Victory is popular in 1919
No state had 5 or more girls named Victory in 1919, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Victory
- 443 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #4,265)
- 1,685 spots since 2020 (#2,580 → #4,265)
- 836 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #4,265)
- Biggest drop: 840 spots in 1919 (#809 → #1,649)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 1918 at #809 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1919, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1918
- Highest: 1 in 14,841 girls born in 1918 were named Victory (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.5% of all girls named Victory (502) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 7 | #1,379 (1898) | #1,379 |
| 1900s | 13 | #1,420 (1905) | #1,676 |
| 1910s | 111 | #809 (1918) | #1,830 |
| 1920s | 56 | #2,590 (1920) | #3,796 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 158 | #1,101 (1942) | #2,015 |
| 1950s | 41 | #3,962 (1950) | #4,828 |
| 1960s | 68 | #3,293 (1962) | #5,046 |
| 1970s | 41 | #5,061 (1970) | #6,438 |
| 1980s | 70 | #5,885 (1981) | #8,250 |
| 1990s | 142 | #4,687 (1994) | #6,684 |
| 2000s | 247 | #2,730 (2009) | #6,230 |
| 2010s | 502 | #2,681 (2019) | #3,264 |
| 2020s | 303 | #2,580 (2020) | #3,290 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Victory in 1919
Top girls' names in 1919
Top boys' names in 1919
More about 1919
girls
1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 47,088 of them was named Victory, which outranked 70.3% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,604Verle25
- #1,604Vester25
- #1,604Violetta25
- #1,649Victory24
- #1,649Albena24
- #1,649Anthony24
- #1,649Arvella24
- #1,698Alla23
- #1,698Allegra23
- #1,698Ardeth23
Tied with 48 names at #1,649; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 122,515 of them was named Victory, which outranked 35.2% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,877Willys9
- #2,877Winnie9
- #2,877Zeke9
- #3,115Victory8
- #3,115Abbott8
- #3,115Abron8
- #3,115Adair8
- #3,391Abb7
- #3,391Adalberto7
- #3,391Agee7
Tied with 275 names at #3,115; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.