Victoria
Victoria is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Victory.
What Victoria means
Victory.
Victoria sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Victoria comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Victoria is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Victoria?
Victoria sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Victoria
We group Victoria under the long-established classics, royalty and rule and strength — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Themes: Classic, Royal, Strong
Names like Victoria
These share Victoria's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Augustus — Great, venerable and majestic.
- Edward — Wealthy guardian.
- Augusta — Great and venerable.
- Diana — Divine; goddess of the moon and hunt.
- August — Great, venerable, majestic.
- Roman — Citizen of Rome; strong.
- Vincent — Conquering; prevailing.
- Julius — Youthful; downy-bearded.
- Lawrence — Crowned with laurel.
- Maximus — The greatest.
- Octavian — The eighth-born.
- Romulus — Founder of Rome.