Meaning & origin
What it means
Vick is a diminutive of Victor. Victor means “conqueror.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Vick is a diminutive of Victor. Victor comes from Late Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Vick is a diminutive of Victor.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 606
- 601 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1951
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,033 as a first name in 2020; 13,437 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vick’s family of names
In English usage, Vick is a diminutive of Victor. In German usage, Vick as a surname has a related form in Friedrich. Vick has a related form in Victor.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Vick
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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