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Wiktoria

A Slavic name that plainly means "victory". Around 207,000 Polish women carry it, but it's slipping from its 2000s peak: girls get it far less often now than a generation ago.

Wiktoria Pronunciation

Wiktoria is pronounced veek-TOR-yah (/vikˈtɔrja/).

Related names
Viktorya Wiktor
Alive in 2025
207,438
Newborns 2025
1,988
National rank
#62
Next name day
23 December
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What Wiktoria means

Where Wiktoria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Wiktoria means victory. In Polish the name settled into a Slavic form and stayed there, spelled with that opening W that marks it as home-grown rather than borrowed whole. The short Polish gloss is zwycięstwo, victory, and that sense has clung to the name wherever it appears.

The name keeps a small household of forms. Wika is the everyday diminutive, the one a teacher writes beside a full Wiktoria in the class register. Vika turns up as a variant, shorter and rounder in the mouth. There is even a cross-gender partner, Wiktor, standing beside her and sharing the same root of victory.

On the twenty-third of December, Poland marks Wiktoria's imieniny, one of several name-days the calendar grants her. A girl called Wiktoria can expect the greeting more than once a year.

So the name makes a plain claim. The Polish gloss, zwycięstwo, holds from the full Wiktoria down to little Wika.

When Wiktoria celebrates name day

Wiktoria appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 21 August.

Next name day
23 December
Wednesday in 2026
Next one in 104 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 Wiktoria

1 in 109 women in Poland is named Wiktoria. 207,438 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #62 among female names.

People with the name Wiktoria 2019 → 2025
207,438 +14,881 since 2019
2020 194,584 +2,027
2021 197,831 +3,247
2022 200,469 +2,638
2023 203,470 +3,001
2024 205,560 +2,090
2025 207,438 +1,878

Wiktoria's popularity over time

1,988 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #38 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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1,988 newborns with the name Wiktoria in 2025
national rank #38 that year

Where Wiktoria is most popular

Wiktoria is given fairly evenly across Poland, with no strong regional preference. It leans slightly toward Lesser Poland (19% above the national average) and is least common in Pomeranian (16% below).

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Wiktoria as a middle name

Wiktoria is a first name for 207,438 women in Poland and a middle name for another 98,949, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 29th, between Urszula (101,121) and Grażyna (95,579).

As a first name
207,438
As a middle name
98,949
first name 68% middle name 32%
Middle-name ranking women

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