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How popular is “Victor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Victor” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Victor” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Victor” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Victor” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Victor” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Victor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Victor” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 100 0.000496317 100 -100%
1881 110 0.000570871 110 -100%
1882 109 0.000492026 109 -100%
1883 99 0.000456335 99 -100%
1884 124 0.000509322 124 -100%
1885 143 0.000593721 143 -100%
1886 146 0.00057184 146 -100%
1887 119 0.000481018 119 -100%
1888 134 0.000447451 134 -100%
1889 158 0.000546815 158 -100%
1890 138 0.000457862 138 -100%
1891 154 0.000537197 154 -100%
1892 200 0.000598133 200 -100%
1893 172 0.000528868 172 -100%
1894 180 0.000531459 180 -100%
1895 196 0.000558373 196 -100%
1896 201 0.000562263 201 -100%
1897 190 0.000547618 190 -100%
1898 205 0.000537416 205 -100%
1899 175 0.000515868 175 -100%
1900 269 0.000597435 269 -100%
1901 169 0.000488705 169 -100%
1902 205 0.000530081 205 -100%
1903 196 0.000514166 196 -100%
1904 218 0.000540293 218 -100%
1905 268 0.000632192 268 -100%
1906 249 0.000581163 249 -100%
1907 250 0.000537184 5 245 -96%
1908 308 0.000630309 308 -100%
1909 320 0.000625949 320 -100%
1910 377 0.000638214 5 372 -97%
1911 493 0.000765198 493 -100%
1912 999 0.00101107 10 989 -98%
1913 1183 0.001040357 6 1177 -99%
1914 1567 0.00110637 8 1559 -99%
1915 2218 0.001210417 7 2211 -99%
1916 2227 0.001151251 12 2215 -99%
1917 2229 0.001110751 22 2207 -98%
1918 3195 0.001471597 12 3183 -99%
1919 2766 0.001310748 15 2751 -99%
1920 2367 0.001046122 18 2349 -98%
1921 2425 0.001038764 18 2407 -99%
1922 2336 0.001020463 14 2322 -99%
1923 2245 0.000975035 19 2226 -98%
1924 2213 0.000929203 24 2189 -98%
1925 2138 0.000916298 19 2119 -98%
1926 2035 0.000886361 19 2016 -98%
1927 1998 0.000861445 15 1983 -98%
1928 1961 0.000867339 15 1946 -98%
1929 1958 0.000893183 17 1941 -98%
1930 1863 0.000837948 19 1844 -98%
1931 1642 0.000780274 19 1623 -98%
1932 1624 0.000769198 12 1612 -99%
1933 1438 0.000719199 7 1431 -99%
1934 1431 0.000689036 11 1420 -98%
1935 1557 0.000745012 12 1545 -98%
1936 1522 0.000732584 5 1517 -99%
1937 1552 0.000728409 10 1542 -99%
1938 1570 0.000709581 9 1561 -99%
1939 1482 0.000672584 7 1475 -99%
1940 1577 0.000684853 10 1567 -99%
1941 1675 0.000687483 8 1667 -99%
1942 2408 0.000881464 13 2395 -99%
1943 2627 0.000930716 11 2616 -99%
1944 2168 0.000805924 6 2162 -99%
1945 2641 0.000995511 10 2631 -99%
1946 2140 0.000669732 10 2130 -99%
1947 2365 0.000656521 10 2355 -99%
1948 2485 0.000719765 7 2478 -99%
1949 2531 0.000726302 12 2519 -99%
1950 2718 0.000775827 5 2713 -100%
1951 2744 0.000744895 11 2733 -99%
1952 3009 0.000792258 14 2995 -99%
1953 3106 0.00080599 6 3100 -100%
1954 3391 0.000851859 24 3367 -99%
1955 3447 0.000858513 12 3435 -99%
1956 3921 0.000950998 14 3907 -99%
1957 4101 0.000975931 20 4081 -99%
1958 3763 0.000910278 25 3738 -99%
1959 3837 0.000922801 20 3817 -99%
1960 4214 0.001014489 27 4187 -99%
1961 4328 0.00104483 29 4299 -99%
1962 4231 0.001048478 22 4209 -99%
1963 4076 0.001029761 21 4055 -99%
1964 3970 0.001021194 25 3945 -99%
1965 3710 0.001023322 27 3683 -99%
1966 3288 0.000946009 21 3267 -99%
1967 3212 0.000946126 17 3195 -99%
1968 2976 0.000880887 34 2942 -98%
1969 3059 0.000880206 17 3042 -99%
1970 3114 0.000863438 27 3087 -98%
1971 2917 0.000849854 29 2888 -98%
1972 2650 0.000843145 31 2619 -98%
1973 2605 0.000863473 27 2578 -98%
1974 2647 0.000870724 24 2623 -98%
1975 2698 0.000893557 19 2679 -99%
1976 2550 0.000840391 23 2527 -98%
1977 2575 0.000810642 25 2550 -98%
1978 2578 0.000812258 29 2549 -98%
1979 2662 0.00080012 28 2634 -98%
1980 2848 0.000826824 25 2823 -98%
1981 2862 0.000827317 20 2842 -99%
1982 3038 0.00086603 36 3002 -98%
1983 3001 0.000866505 31 2970 -98%
1984 3212 0.000920672 35 3177 -98%
1985 3371 0.000944493 29 3342 -98%
1986 3328 0.000935599 35 3293 -98%
1987 3342 0.000926888 35 3307 -98%
1988 3668 0.000992681 39 3629 -98%
1989 3948 0.001026936 43 3905 -98%
1990 4472 0.001131442 27 4445 -99%
1991 4369 0.001121618 34 4335 -98%
1992 4323 0.001125408 31 4292 -99%
1993 4233 0.001122729 26 4207 -99%
1994 4073 0.001095584 18 4055 -99%
1995 4115 0.001123655 19 4096 -99%
1996 3942 0.001080831 18 3924 -99%
1997 3715 0.001024616 14 3701 -99%
1998 4011 0.001090477 14 3997 -99%
1999 4027 0.001090185 11 4016 -99%
2000 4064 0.00107516 11 4053 -99%
2001 3933 0.001050652 12 3921 -99%
2002 3943 0.00105476 8 3935 -100%
2003 4446 0.001169286 10 4436 -100%
2004 4305 0.001126691 16 4289 -99%
2005 4146 0.001078327 6 4140 -100%
2006 4323 0.001092718 11 4312 -99%
2007 4283 0.001071371 9 4274 -100%
2008 3789 0.000963959 8 3781 -100%
2009 3544 0.000927706 3544 -100%
2010 3186 0.000862074 6 3180 -100%
2011 2898 0.000792281 5 2893 -100%
2012 2881 0.000787725 8 2873 -99%
2013 2737 0.000750754 6 2731 -100%
2014 2694 0.000726856 5 2689 -100%
2015 2573 0.000695234 2573 -100%
2016 2466 0.000672173 5 2461 -100%
2017 2409 0.000673621 2409 -100%
2018 2224 0.000632556 2224 -100%
2019 2104 0.000606177 2104 -100%
2020 1904 0.000569961 1904 -100%
2021 1816 0.000536018 1816 -100%
2022 1770 0.000523183 1770 -100%
2023 1696 0.000512202 1696 -100%
2024 1674 0.000502929 1674 -100%

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