Vikram
#2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 42 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,084since 1969
Vikram over time
Rank among boys' names. Vikram has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #2,525 | 52 |
| 2018 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,336 | 54 |
| 2012 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2011 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 2006 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #2,163 | 56 |
| 2004 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,077 | 54 |
| 2002 | #1,832 | 62 |
| 2001 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | #1,725 | 65 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,257 | 34 |
| 1992 | #2,362 | 31 |
| 1991 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #1,837 | 33 |
| 1985 | #1,524 | 43 |
| 1984 | #1,764 | 32 |
| 1983 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,479 | 42 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #2,556 | 17 |
| 1976 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vikram! It came in at #3,314, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1973, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Vikram is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#501 · 1 in 7,076
- New York#881 · 1 in 16,220
- Illinois#884 · 1 in 16,926
Best ever in a state: #453 in Connecticut, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #501 | 6 | 1 in 7,076 |
| New York | #881 | 7 | 1 in 16,220 |
| Illinois | #884 | 5 | 1 in 16,926 |
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See more about Vikram
- 596 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,884)
- 252 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #2,884)
- 20 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1981 at #1,479 (42 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,789 boys born in 2024 were named Vikram (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,479 in 1981, was only 1 in 42,647 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.4% of all boys named Vikram (530) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,314 |
| 1970s | 127 | #1,788 (1979) | #3,393 |
| 1980s | 298 | #1,479 (1981) | #2,039 |
| 1990s | 343 | #2,060 (1997) | #2,333 |
| 2000s | 530 | #1,725 (2000) | #2,237 |
| 2010s | 490 | #2,277 (2014) | #2,564 |
| 2020s | 288 | #2,288 (2024) | #2,779 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vikram in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 42,647 of them was named Vikram, which outranked 79.7% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,456Tobin43
- #1,456Vincente43
- #1,456Willy43
- #1,479Vikram42
- #1,479Ajay42
- #1,479Armond42
- #1,479Brooke42
- #1,500Bradlee41
- #1,500Christoher41
- #1,500Constantine41
Tied with 20 names at #1,479; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.