Origin, meaning and forms

Victoria is the Latin

Latin

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 word for 'victory' and is used as the feminine form corresponding to the name Victor

Victor (name)

Victor is a masculine given name that has been used for centuries in numerous cultures and parts of the world. Of Latin origin, victor means " conquers" and may also be spelled Viktor, Vítor or Víctor...

. Hence, Victoria Salvador means 'victory to the savior'

Victoria (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion, Victoria was the personified goddess of victory. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike, and was associated with Bellona. She was adapted from the Sabine agricultural goddess Vacuna and had a temple on the Palatine Hill...

. Victoria can be used as a first name or as a family name

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

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In Roman mythology

Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans...

, Victoria

Victoria (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion, Victoria was the personified goddess of victory. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike, and was associated with Bellona. She was adapted from the Sabine agricultural goddess Vacuna and had a temple on the Palatine Hill...

 was the name of the goddess

Goddess

A goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....

 of victory, corresponding to the Greek goddess Nike

Nike (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nike was a goddess who personified victory, also known as the Winged Goddess of Victory. The Roman equivalent was Victoria. Depending upon the time of various myths, she was described as the daughter of Pallas and Styx and the sister of Kratos , Bia , and Zelus...

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There are several different variations of the name Victoria:

• Bulgarian
  Bulgarian language
  Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
  
  : Виктория (Viktoriya)
• Danish
  Danish language
  Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
  
  : Viktoria
• Czech
  Czech language
  Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
  
  : Viktorie, Viktorka
• Finnish
  Finnish language
  Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
  
  : Viktooria
• French
  French language
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  : Victoire, Victorina, Victorine
• German
  German language
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  : Viktoria
• Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Viktória
• Icelandic
  Icelandic language
  Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
  
  : Viktoría
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : Vittoria, Vittoriana
• Lithuanian
  Lithuanian language
  Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
  
  : Viktorija
• Maltese
  Maltese language
  Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...
  
  : Vitorja
• Polish
  Polish language
  Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
  
  : Wiktoria
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Victória, Vitória
• Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
  : Victoria
• Russian
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  : Виктория (Viktoriya)
• Serbo-Croatian
  Serbo-Croatian language
  Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
  
  : Viktorija
• Slovenian
  Slovenian language
  Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
  
  : Viktória
• Spanish
  Spanish language
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  : Victoria
• Swedish
  Swedish language
  Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
  
  : Viktoria, Victoria
• Ukrainian
  Ukrainian language
  Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
  
  : Вікторія (Viktoriya)

People

• Princess Victoria (disambiguation), several people
  • Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
    Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
    Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland is the heiress-apparent to the Swedish throne. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Sweden's fourth queen regnant .-Early life:...
    
     (born 1977), Crown princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland
  • Victoria, Princess Royal
    Victoria, Princess Royal
    The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III...
    
     (1840–1901), daughter of Queen Victoria and later Empress of Germany
• Victoria (Gallic Empire) (died 271), mother of Gallic Emperor Victorinus
• Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901) and Empress of India (1876–1901)
• Victoria of Baden
  Victoria of Baden
  Victoria of Baden was a Queen consort of Sweden by her marriage to King Gustaf V of Sweden. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development of democracy and known as a pro-German during the First World War.-Birth:Princess Viktoria was born on 7 August 1862 at the castle...
  
   (1862–1930), Queen of Sweden
• Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
  
   (born 1989), Belarusian tennis player
• Victoria Beckham
  Victoria Beckham
  Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
  
   (born 1974), member of the Spice Girls and wife of soccer player David Beckham
• Victoria Carbó
  Victoria Carbó
  Victoria Carbó is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She won the gold medal the previous year at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.- References :...
  
   (born 1963), Argentine field hockey player
• Victoria Climbié (1991–2000), notable child murder case in the U.K.
• Victoria Crawford
  Victoria Crawford
  Victoria Elizabeth Crawford is an American model and professional wrestler best known by her ring name Alicia Fox. She is signed to WWE where she performs on the SmackDown brand....
  
   (born 1986), WWE diva, wrestler and model
• Victoria Dunlap
  Victoria Dunlap
  Victoria Dunlap is a basketball player who was selected by the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association in the first round of the 2011 WNBA Draft...
  
   (born 1989), American basketball player
• Victoria Fuller
  Victoria Fuller
  Victoria Alynette Fuller is an American glamour model, artist, actress and reality TV contestant....
  
   (born 1970), American model and actress
• Victoria Jackson
  Victoria Jackson
  Victoria Jackson is an American comedian, actress, satirist and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992....
  
   (born 1959), American comedian and actress
• Victoria Justice
  Victoria Justice
  Victoria Justice is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and dancer. She debuted as an actress at the age of 10 and has since appeared in several films and television series including the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and Victorious...
  
   (born 1993), American actress, singer, model and spokesmodel
• Victoria Marshman, candidate on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9
• Victoria Palacios
  Victoria Palacios
  Victoria Palacios Carillo is a retired female race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   (born 1977), Mexican race walker
• Victoria Paris
  Victoria Paris
  Victoria Paris is an American pornographic actress.She gained a degree in Nutrition from Montana State University before moving to Los Angeles in 1987...
  
   (born 1960), American pornographic actress
• Victoria Principal
  Victoria Principal
  Victoria Principal is an American actress, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1950), American actress
• Victoria Rowell
  Victoria Rowell
  Victoria "Vicki" Lynn Rowell is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her portrayal of ballerina-turned-model Drucilla Winters on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, and medical examiner/pathologist Dr. Amanda Bentley on the CBS drama Diagnosis: Murder...
  
    (born 1959), American actress and dancer
• Victoria Silvstedt
  Victoria Silvstedt
  Karen Victoria Silvstedt is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer, and television personality.-Background:Born in Skelleftehamn, Silvstedt was raised in a family of five in Bollnäs, having one older sister and one younger brother...
  
   (born 1974), Swedish model and actress
• Victoria Song
  Victoria Song
  Song Qian , better known as Victoria Song or mononymously as Victoria was born February 2, 1987, is a Chinese singer, dancer and model, leader of the 5 member South Korean girl group f....
  
   (born 1987), Chinese pop singer
• Tori Spelling
  Tori Spelling
  Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling is an American actress. Spelling became known in the early 1990s for her role as Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210. Spelling then had roles in a string of made-for-television films, such as A Friend to Die For and Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?...
  
   (born 1973), American actress
• Victoria Stafford (2000–2009), Canadian murder victim
• Victoria Wood
  Victoria Wood
  Victoria Wood CBE is a British comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano...
  
   (born 1953), English singer, writer and comedienne
• Viktorija
  Viktorija
  Snežana Mišković , better known by her stage name Viktorija , is a Serbian female rock singer known for her husky voice.-Biography:Snežana Mišković was born in Vučitrn. She came to Belgrade as a student in 1976, where she started performing with Society of Culture and Arts Branko Krsmanović and the...
  
   (born 1958), Serbian singer
• Viktoria (born 1970), Filipina singer
• Victoria, stage name of Lisa Marie Varon
  Lisa Marie Varon
  Lisa Marie Varon , is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and fitness competitor of Puerto Rican and Turkish descent...
  
   (born 1971), professional wrestler
• Little Boots
  Little Boots
  Victoria Christina Hesketh, also known by her stage name/pseudonym Little Boots, is an English electropop singer-songwriter. Her stage name comes from a nickname given to her by a friend, a reference to her unusually small feet...
  
   (born 1984), British musician and singer, given name Victoria Hesketh
• Pixie Lott
  Pixie Lott
  Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Boys and Girls", also topped the UK charts in September 2009. Her debut album Turn It...
  
   (born 1991), British singer, given name Victoria Louise Lott
• Victoria Newman Abbott, a character on the America soap opera The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  
• Victoria Lord Banks, a character on the American soap opera One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  

Surnames

• Guadalupe Victoria
  Guadalupe Victoria
  Guadalupe Victoria born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican politician and military man who fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence. He was a deputy for Durango and a member of the Supreme Executive Power...
  
   (1786–1843), first president of Mexico
• Tomás Luis de Victoria
  Tomás Luis de Victoria
  Tomás Luis de Victoria, sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria , was the most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, and one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso. Victoria was not only a composer, but also an...
  
   (1548–1611), Spanish composer

See also

• Victoria (disambiguation)
• Saint Victoria (disambiguation), several Christian saints with this name
• Victoire (disambiguation), French equivalent
• Viktoriya