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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/).

Alive in 2025
116,451
Newborns 2025
1,886
National rank
#116
Next name day
6 March
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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.

When Wiktor celebrates name day

Wiktor appears 27 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 6 March.

Next name day
6 March
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 132 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

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.

People with the name Wiktor 2019 → 2025
116,451 +13,022 since 2019
2020 105,120 +1,691
2021 108,016 +2,896
2022 110,496 +2,480
2023 112,896 +2,400
2024 114,843 +1,947
2025 116,451 +1,608

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.

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1,886 newborns with the name Wiktor in 2025
national rank #41 that year

Where parents choose Wiktor

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.

Chosen most
  • Podlaskie
    +33%
    1 in 86 babies
  • Lublin
    +26%
    1 in 91 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +13%
    1 in 102 babies
Chosen least
  • Lower Silesian
    −14%
    1 in 134 babies
  • Masovian
    −12%
    1 in 131 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    −11%
    1 in 129 babies

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).

As a first name
116,451
As a middle name
46,809
first name 71% middle name 29%
Middle-name ranking men

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