Viktoria (name)

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Viktoria or Victoria is a female given name .

meaning

Latin victoria means "victory". The name refers to the Roman goddess of victory and allegory of victory called Victoria .

distribution

The name was popular, for example, after the Turkish Wars of the Baroque period and because of the veneration of the Sancta Maria de Victoria, the Maria of Victory .

The most famous name bearer was Queen Victoria of Great Britain .

In the early 20th century, Victoria was briefly a well-known, albeit rare, name in Germany. It was not until the 1970s that both Victoria and Victoria gained roughly equal popularity. At the beginning of the 21st century, the names were 50 to 20 of the most popular German first names, depending on the year.

Statistical data from the USA shows that Victoria was hardly given as a maiden name there in the early 20th century (in rankings of the most popular first names up to the 1960s mostly below rank 100, sometimes below rank 200), which was in the 1980s first changed. Victoria has been a popular name there since the 1990s (places 19 to 25 among the most common girls' first names per decade).

variants

Distribution of the name variants (coloring according to the most common name variant)
  • Victoria, Victoria
  • as diminutive : Viktorina, Viktorine

In other languages

  • Bulgarian Виктория Wiktorija
  • czech Viktorie
  • english Victoria
  • Spanish Victoria
  • French Victoire
  • Hungarian Viktória
  • Italian Vittoria, Vittoriana, Vittorina
  • Portuguese Vitoria
  • Lithuanian Viktorija
  • Dutch Victoria
  • Norwegian Viktoria
  • Polish Wiktoria
  • Russian Виктория Wiktorija
  • Slovak Viktória
  • Swedish Viktoria
  • Serbian Viktorija

The masculine form of the first name is Victor / Viktor .

Short forms

The short form of Viktoria, which is most common in the English and German-speaking countries, is derived from the first syllable (written in the variants Vi [c / k] [c / k] [i / y] , e.g. Vicky or Vicki ), followed by deriving from the second syllable ( Tori or Tory ). However, there are numerous other short forms with principally similar derivation, mostly from other language areas. These include: Vice, Vichi, Vickan, Vika, Wicky, Wika, Wiki, Wita, Terrie, Toja, Toya.

The short form Vicky is also used for other names, but less often. For example, the first name of the German-Greek pop singer Vicky Leandros is derived from the first name Vassiliki , which in turn is a variant of Vasilis / Basileus .

Memorial days

Name bearers

Viktoria as a first and proper name

Nobles

Other people

Victoria, Victoria
Vitória, Vittoria
Viktorija, Viktorija, Viktorija
Other forms

Middle name

Artist name, pseudonym

Fictional people

The following work titles refer to characters named Victoria

Others

Numerous places on earth, a Mars crater and one of the large asteroids , as well as numerous church buildings after Maria ( Maria Victoria Church ) bear the name .

A genus of water lily plants is also named in this way.

The name was popular with football and other sports clubs.

See also Victoria for other possible names after personal names.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on Popular-Fornamen.de
  2. ^ US Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names By Decade

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