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/).
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.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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.
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.
Where parents choose Wiktoria
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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Lesser Poland
+19%1 in 88 babies
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Subcarpathian
+19%1 in 88 babies
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Lublin
+18%1 in 88 babies
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Pomeranian
−16%1 in 123 babies
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Lower Silesian
−12%1 in 119 babies
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Masovian
−10%1 in 116 babies
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Lesser Poland+19% 2,584 born1 in 88 babies+19%
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Subcarpathian+19% 1,372 born1 in 88 babies+19%
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Lublin+18% 1,165 born1 in 88 babies+18%
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Podlaskie+15% 726 born1 in 91 babies+15%
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Opole+7% 474 born1 in 97 babies+7%
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Łódź+6% 1,283 born1 in 99 babies+6%
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Holy Cross+2% 543 born1 in 102 babies+2%
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Warmian-Masurian+1% 693 born1 in 104 babies+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian±0% 1,050 born1 in 104 babies±0%
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Silesian−1% 2,162 born1 in 105 babies−1%
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Lubusz−2% 467 born1 in 106 babies−2%
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Greater Poland−8% 1,900 born1 in 113 babies−8%
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West Pomeranian−9% 734 born1 in 115 babies−9%
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Masovian−10% 3,052 born1 in 116 babies−10%
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Lower Silesian−12% 1,324 born1 in 119 babies−12%
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Pomeranian−16% 1,193 born1 in 123 babies−16%
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).
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#27 Karolina112,040
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#28 Urszula101,121
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#29 Wiktoria98,949
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#30 Grażyna95,579
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#31 Alicja86,785