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- Victor
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- latim
Checked in Dicionário de Nomes Próprios and Behind the Name.
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meaning of the name Victor
Victor means "victor, conqueror". Origin: Latin. The reading was checked in Dicionário de Nomes Próprios and Behind the Name, and the tool below shows the sources, the caveats, its popularity and nicknames.
Checked in Dicionário de Nomes Próprios and Behind the Name.
Literal sense, reworded from the sources.
2 entries in 2 sources.
Peak in the 2000s.
2 documented nicknames.
Nobody knows for sure, which is why we leave the meaning blank. The Hebrew form is Miryam, the name of the sister of Moses. Behind the Name lists theories such as "sea of bitterness", "rebelliousness" and "wished-for child", or an Egyptian root tied to "beloved"; the Dicionário de Nomes Próprios gives "sovereign lady". These readings exclude one another.
Victor means "victor, conqueror", according to Dicionário de Nomes Próprios and Behind the Name.
Origin: Latin. Victor, "conqueror" in Latin, used as a Roman cognomen.
The documented nicknames are Vitinho and Vic. The first, Vitinho, is the most used according to the Nickname Finder's curated dictionary.
Yes, within what onomastics allows: Dicionário de Nomes Próprios and Behind the Name give the same reading, checked on 2026-11-02. We claim nothing about personality.
The 2010 IBGE Census counted 242,154, 1 in every 788 Brazilians; the largest group was born in the 2000s (130,956) and the name was still rising in the last decade measured. The peak was 130,956 people in the 2000s.
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Sources opened and checked on 2026-11-02. The text is ours, reworded from them. We use no numerology and no personality traits.