Given name & surname · also Sanskrit
Vijay
“one who is victorious; the conquerer”
Vijay is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “one who is victorious; the conquerer.”
Original Hindiविजय
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who is victorious; the conquerer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit vijaya, meaning “victory”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vijay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,495
- 1,495 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,771 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −50%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,771 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 49 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,323 as a first name in 2020; 1,520 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.
Vijay’s family of names
Vijay has a feminine form in Vijaya. Vijay has a related form in Veejay. Vijay has a related form in Veejaye.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Vijay
- Vijay MallyaIndian businessman and former Member of Parliamentborn 1955
- Vijay AmritrajIndian tennis playerborn 1953
- Vijay SinghFijian-Indian professional golfer (born 1963)
- Vijay KumarIndian sport shooterborn 1985
- Vijay RupaniChief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 20211956–2025
- Vijay DeverakondaIndian actorborn 1989
- Vijay SethupathiIndian actor and Indian film producerborn 1978
- Vijay ShankarIndian cricketerborn 1991
- Vijay RaazIndian actorborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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