girls:
1.8k births since 1907
#3977 (30th percentile)
boys:
327k births since 1880
#103 (98th percentile)
overall:
328.8k births since 1880
#227 (97th percentile)
The name Victor is the #227 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 328,831 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #103 (97.8% percentile) for all time with 327,024 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,977 (30.4% percentile) for all time with 1,807 births since 1907.
Victor has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1907 for girls).
The name Victor has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Victor reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 89.5% percentile (ranked #82) with 2,065 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 3,035 births per million (ranked 88.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Victor ranks #214 for boys (76.6% percentile) with 921 births per million, which is 30.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Victor reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #783) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Victor".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Victor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Victor is pronounced as VIHK-ter, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vihk-TER, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V IH1 K T ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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