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Виктор
“victor”
Виктор (Viktor) is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Russian, Macedonian, and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Victor.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Виктор is Viktor written in Cyrillic. Viktor goes back to Latin victor, meaning “victor.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Russian usage, Виктор developed from Victor.
Виктор’s family of names
In Russian usage, Виктор has a diminutive in Ви́тя. In Russian usage, Виктор developed from the Latin form Victor. In Russian usage, Виктор has a conventional equivalent in the German form Viktor.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Виктор has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Виктор comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Виктор
- Viktor YanukovychPresident of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014born 1950
- Viktor TsoiSoviet rock musician (1962-1990)
- Dima BilanRussian pop singerborn 1981
- Viktor ChernomyrdinRussian diplomat and politician (1938–2010)
- Viktor AmbartsumianSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
- Viktor VasnetsovRussian artist (1848-1926)
- Viktor KorchnoiSoviet-Swiss chess grandmaster1931–2016
- Viktor ZubkovRussian politician and businessmanborn 1941
- Victor PelevinRussian author (born 1962)
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