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.
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 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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Lesser Poland2,584 girls born+19%
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Subcarpathian1,372 girls born+19%
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Lublin1,165 girls born+18%
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Podlaskie726 girls born+15%
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Opole474 girls born+7%
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Łódź1,283 girls born+6%
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Świętokrzyskie543 girls born+2%
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Warmian-Masurian693 girls born+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian1,050 girls born0%
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Silesian2,162 girls born−1%
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Lubusz467 girls born−2%
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Greater Poland1,900 girls born−8%
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West Pomeranian734 girls born−9%
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Masovian3,052 girls born−10%
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Lower Silesian1,324 girls born−12%
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Pomeranian1,193 girls born−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
112,040Karolina
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28
101,121Urszula
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2998,949Wiktoria
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30
95,579Grażyna
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31
86,785Alicja
When Wiktoria celebrates name day
Wiktoria appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 21 August.