Wiktor
A Latin name meaning "victor" or "conqueror". You almost certainly know a Wiktor: it still goes to well over a thousand boys a year, though less often than a decade ago.
Wiktor Pronunciation
Wiktor is pronounced VEEK-tor (/ˈviktɔr/).
What Wiktor means
Where Wiktor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wiktor comes from the Latin Victor, an agent noun meaning conqueror or one who wins. The same root sits in the English word victory and in the verb vincere, to conquer. Early Christians took up Victor as a name of triumph over death, and several early martyrs and popes carried it. Its short meaning stays close to that Latin sense: zwycięzca, the one who prevails.
The name keeps a family around it. Wiktoria is its feminine twin, and the diminutive Wika softens it for a child. Vika serves as a variant that travels well across Slavic borders. So a single Latin stem branches into forms for a boy, a girl, and a nickname.
Call a boy Wiktor and you hand him a claim written into Roman inscriptions.
On a Polish school register the name reads plainly, four letters after the surname, easy for a teacher to call. Its name-day falls more than once in the calendar, since so many saints bore Victor before it reached Polish. What the child inherits is a plain meaning that has not shifted: zwycięzca, the conqueror.
How many people are named Wiktor
1 in 183 men in Poland is named Wiktor. 116,451 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #116 among male names.
Wiktor's popularity over time
1,886 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #41 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Wiktor is most popular
Wiktor is most popular in Podlaskie, 33% above the national average (761 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+26%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+13%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Masovian, 14% and 12% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie761 boys born+33%
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Lublin1,125 boys born+26%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian1,075 boys born+13%
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Subcarpathian1,144 boys born+9%
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Greater Poland2,007 boys born+7%
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Świętokrzyskie517 boys born+7%
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Silesian2,104 boys born+6%
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Lesser Poland1,923 boys born−3%
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Opole389 boys born−3%
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Pomeranian1,230 boys born−4%
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Lubusz413 boys born−5%
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Łódź1,041 boys born−6%
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Warmian-Masurian583 boys born−7%
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West Pomeranian653 boys born−11%
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Masovian2,712 boys born−12%
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Lower Silesian1,175 boys born−14%
Wiktor as a middle name
Wiktor is a first name for 116,451 men in Poland and a middle name for another 46,809, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 60th, between Waldemar (47,337) and Przemysław (45,598).
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58
50,403Zdzisław
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59
47,337Waldemar
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6046,809Wiktor
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61
45,598Przemysław
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62
45,511Zygmunt
When Wiktor celebrates name day
Wiktor appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 6 March.