Meaning of the nameVictor

Male
Latin origin
Vic-tor

Victor is a male name of Latin origin, from the Roman name Victor, meaning 'winner' or 'conqueror'.

Meaning

“winner, conqueror”

Source: Wiktionary: Victor · Behind the Name: Victor

People (2022): 365,171
Rank in Brazil: #75
Median age: 17 years
2010 Census: 242,154; people

Victor in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Victor, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (131,368 people).

2,618 women 362,553 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Victor is most common

States with the highest share of people named Victor in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Distrito Federal 0.260%
Roraima 0.238%
Goiás 0.226%
São Paulo 0.218%
Minas Gerais 0.208%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	96,810	0.218%
Minas Gerais	42,790	0.208%
Rio de Janeiro	32,387	0.202%
Paraná	23,175	0.203%
Rio Grande do Sul	16,077	0.148%
Goiás	15,939	0.226%
Bahia	15,210	0.108%
Santa Catarina	13,584	0.179%
Pernambuco	12,842	0.142%
Ceará	11,376	0.129%
Pará	10,145	0.125%
Maranhão	9,614	0.142%
Distrito Federal	7,337	0.260%
Mato Grosso	7,058	0.193%
Amazonas	6,968	0.177%
Espírito Santo	5,784	0.151%
Paraíba	5,772	0.145%
Mato Grosso do Sul	5,401	0.196%
Rio Grande do Norte	4,849	0.147%
Piauí	4,849	0.148%
Sergipe	3,912	0.177%
Alagoas	3,837	0.123%
Rondônia	2,913	0.184%
Tocantins	2,857	0.189%
Roraima	1,514	0.238%
Acre	1,184	0.143%
Amapá	987	0.135%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Victor

Victor is a learned borrowing from Late Latin Victor, according to Wiktionary, which links the name to the Latin word victor, 'conqueror'. Behind the Name describes it as a Roman cognomen meaning 'winner, conqueror' in Latin. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 365,171 people named Victor, with a median age of 17. The name grew among people born from the 1980s onward, peaked among those born in the 2000s and, proportionally, is most common in the Distrito Federal. Wiktionary records Vítor, without the C, and the older form Víctor as other spellings of the same name.

Sources

Wiktionary: Victor · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Victor · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Vítor · en.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Victor

What does the name Victor mean?

Victor means “winner, conqueror”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Victor in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 365,171 people with the first name Victor, which ranks it number 75 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Victor a boy's or a girl's name?

Victor is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 2,618 women and 362,553 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Victor?

Victor is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Victor most common?

Proportionally, in Distrito Federal: 0.260% of the state's population is named Victor (7,337 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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