How popular is “Victory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Victory” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Victory” 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 “Victory” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Victory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Victory” 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
1898	7	0.000018351	7		100%
1900	5	0.000011105	5		100%
1905	8	0.000018871	8		100%
1916	9	0.000004653	9		100%
1918	99	0.000045599	78	21	58%
1919	32	0.000015164	24	8	50%
1920	13	0.000005745	13		100%
1922	11	0.000004805	11		100%
1924	14	0.000005878	9	5	29%
1925	7	0.000003	7		100%
1926	11	0.000004791	6	5	9%
1927	6	0.000002587		6	-100%
1928	10	0.000004423	5	5	0%
1929	5	0.000002281	5		100%
1932	5	0.000002368		5	-100%
1933	6	0.000003001		6	-100%
1936	7	0.000003369		7	-100%
1938	5	0.00000226		5	-100%
1939	5	0.000002269		5	-100%
1940	5	0.000002171		5	-100%
1942	64	0.000023428	51	13	59%
1943	57	0.000020194	42	15	47%
1944	30	0.000011152	23	7	53%
1945	54	0.000020355	36	18	33%
1948	6	0.000001738	6		100%
1950	8	0.000002284	8		100%
1952	5	0.000001316	5		100%
1953	5	0.000001297	5		100%
1955	7	0.000001743	7		100%
1956	7	0.000001698	7		100%
1958	14	0.000003387	9	5	29%
1959	10	0.000002405		10	-100%
1960	7	0.000001685		7	-100%
1961	16	0.000003863	5	11	-38%
1962	25	0.000006195	15	10	20%
1963	21	0.000005305	9	12	-14%
1964	16	0.000004116	6	10	-25%
1965	17	0.000004689	9	8	6%
1966	19	0.000005467	8	11	-16%
1967	6	0.000001767		6	-100%
1968	18	0.000005328	8	10	-11%
1969	13	0.000003741	8	5	23%
1970	17	0.000004714	10	7	18%
1972	7	0.000002227		7	-100%
1973	12	0.000003978	7	5	17%
1974	8	0.000002632		8	-100%
1975	10	0.000003312	10		100%
1976	13	0.000004284	7	6	8%
1978	17	0.000005356	7	10	-18%
1980	10	0.000002903		10	-100%
1981	17	0.000004914	11	6	29%
1982	6	0.00000171	6		100%
1983	15	0.000004331	9	6	20%
1984	15	0.0000043	8	7	7%
1985	13	0.000003642	6	7	-8%
1986	7	0.000001968	7		100%
1987	5	0.000001387	5		100%
1988	16	0.00000433	10	6	25%
1989	13	0.000003382	8	5	23%
1990	12	0.000003036	7	5	17%
1991	18	0.000004621	10	8	11%
1992	18	0.000004686	12	6	33%
1993	18	0.000004774	11	7	22%
1994	21	0.000005649	21		100%
1995	16	0.000004369	16		100%
1996	24	0.00000658	18	6	50%
1997	27	0.000007447	15	12	11%
1998	24	0.000006525	17	7	42%
1999	15	0.000004061	15		100%
2000	13	0.000003439	13		100%
2001	15	0.000004007	9	6	20%
2002	25	0.000006688	14	11	12%
2003	27	0.000007101	27		100%
2004	22	0.000005758	12	10	9%
2005	30	0.000007803	20	10	33%
2006	32	0.000008089	27	5	69%
2007	34	0.000008505	25	9	47%
2008	46	0.000011703	34	12	48%
2009	74	0.000019371	66	8	78%
2010	63	0.000017047	52	11	65%
2011	52	0.000014216	39	13	50%
2012	53	0.000014491	41	12	55%
2013	55	0.000015086	46	9	67%
2014	69	0.000018617	57	12	65%
2015	60	0.000016212	46	14	53%
2016	65	0.000017717	49	16	51%
2017	69	0.000019294	48	21	39%
2018	74	0.000021047	59	15	59%
2019	77	0.000022184	64	13	66%
2020	77	0.00002305	66	11	71%
2021	89	0.00002627	64	25	44%
2022	73	0.000021578	52	21	42%
2023	62	0.000018724	49	13	58%
2024	57	0.000017125	39	18	37%

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