Vijay
Boys' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin
- Living in the US
- ~1,400 survival-weighted estimate
- 2025 rank
- #12,008 among boys
- Births in 2025
- 5 1,495 since 1880
- Typical age
- 31 years, median
Vijay popularity over time
The high point was 2006: 49 births recorded as Vijay. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1963. The 2025 position is #12,008, on 5 births.
Over ten years the count has fallen 58%.
How many people are named Vijay?
About 1,400 people named Vijay are alive in the United States today. That is out of 1,495 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.
How old is the average Vijay?
Median age among living Vijays: 31. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Vijay a millennial-era name.
Your Vijay
Where the name Vijay comes from
Transliteration of Hindi विजय.
Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.
See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.
Notable people named Vijay
| Name | Known for | Years | Editions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Vijay Mallya | Indian businessman and former Member of Parliament | 1955 | 32 |
|
Vijay Amritraj | Indian tennis player | 1953 | 30 |
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Vijay Singh | Fijian-Indian professional golfer | 1963 | 29 |
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Vijay Rupani | Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021 | 1956–2025 | 26 |
|
Vijay Sethupathi | Indian actor and Indian film producer | 1978 | 23 |
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Vijay Deverakonda | Indian actor | 1989 | 22 |
| Vijay Raaz | Indian actor | 1963 | 16 | |
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Vijay Shankar | Indian cricketer | 1991 | 16 |
Photo credits (7)
- Vijay Mallya — Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Dana Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Amritraj — Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Singh — Flickr user nostalgic_fordisaster / Siyi Chen [2], CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Rupani — Vice President's Secretariat, GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Sethupathi — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Deverakonda — Dani Charles, silverscreen.in, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vijay Shankar — Dee03, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.
Names similar to Vijay
Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.
Related pages
- All names from 2006
- Top names of 2025
- Sanskrit names
- Names beginning with V
- Every year, 1880 to 2025
- Names by state
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