Victoria (name)

Victoria or Victoria is a female first name.

Importance

Latin victoria means "victory". The name refers to the Roman goddess of victory and Allegory of Victory named Victoria. Become popular is the name but also after the Turkish wars of the Baroque period and the worship of Sancta Maria de Victoria, the Our ​​Lady of Victory.

Variants

  • Victoria, Victoria, Viktorija
  • A diminutive: Viktorina

Nicknames (all languages):

In other languages:

  • Bulgarian Виктория, Viktorija
  • Czech Viktorie
  • English Victoria
  • Spanish Victoria
  • French Victoire
  • Hungarian Viktoria
  • Italian Vittoria, Vittoriana, Vittorina
  • Lithuanian Viktorija
  • Dutch Victoria
  • Norwegian Viktoria
  • Polish Wiktoria
  • Russian Виктория Viktorija
  • Slovak Viktoria
  • Swedish Viktoria
  • Serbian Viktorija

The masculine form of the first name is Victor.

Anniversaries

Namesakes (both spellings and variants)

Victoria as a pre- and a proper name

Nobleman

  • Victoria ( † after 271), Empress of the Gallic Empire
  • Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), Marchioness of Pescara and Italian poetess
  • Vittoria Farnese (1521-1602), Princess of Parma and Piacenza
  • Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt- Bernburg - Schaumburg- Hoym (1715-1772), princess and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg -Bayreuth
  • Victoria of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld (1786-1861), mother of Queen Victoria
  • Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India
  • Victoria of Saxe-Coburg- Saalfeld- Koháry (1822-1857), Princess of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, and by marriage Duchess of Nemours
  • Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1840-1901) (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa ), German Empress, daughter of Queen Victoria
  • Victoria of Baden (1862-1930), Queen of Sweden
  • Victoria of Hesse -Darmstadt (1863-1950), by marriage Princess of Battenberg
  • Victoria of Prussia (1866-1929), Princess of Prussia, daughter of Emperor Frederick III.
  • Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1868-1935), daughter of King Edward VII, British princess
  • Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), Queen of Spain
  • Viktoria Luise of Prussia (1892-1980), Princess of Prussia, daughter of Emperor Wilhelm II, Duchess of Brunswick
  • Victoria of Sweden ( b. 1977 ), Swedish Crown Princess

Other people

  • Victoria, battle name of American wrestler Lisa Marie Varon (born 1971 )
  • Victoria Abril ( born 1959 ), Spanish actress
  • Vittoria Raffaella Aleotti ( baptized in 1575, † probably after 1646), Italian composer and organist
  • Victoria de los Ángeles (1923-2005), Spanish opera singer
  • Victoria Beckham ( born 1974 ), British pop singer
  • Victoria Benedictsson (1850-1888), Swedish writer
  • Viktoria Brams (* 1944), German actress
  • Victoria Chaplin ( born 1951 ), American actress and circus artist
  • Viktoria von Dirksen (1874-1946), German political lobbyist
  • Victória Guerra (* 1989), the Portuguese actress
  • Victoria Justice (* 1993), American actress
  • Vicky Leandros ( born 1952 ), German - Greek pop singer
  • Victoria Max -Theurer (* 1985), Austrian dressage rider
  • Viktoria Mullova (* 1959), Russian violinist
  • Victoria Mxenge (1942-1985), South African human rights activist
  • Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), Argentine writer, translator and cultural manager
  • Viktoria Pavuk ( born 1985 ), Hungarian figure skater
  • Victoria Principal ( born 1946 ), American actress
  • Viktoria Rebenburg (* 1989), German ski racer
  • Victoire Thivisol (* 1991), French actress
  • Viktoria Tolstoy ( born 1974 ), Swedish jazz singer
  • Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin (1838-1927), first American presidential candidate

Fictional people

The following work titles refer to figures named Viktoria

  • Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930 ), operetta by Paul Abraham
  • Viktor und Viktoria (1933 ), film directed by Reinhold Schünzel
  • Victor / Victoria (1982 ), film directed by Blake Edwards, remake of Viktor und Viktoria (1933 )

Others

The name carry numerous places on Earth, a Mars crater, and a major asteroids, as well as the numerous church buildings Maria ( Maria- Victoria Church).

Also, a plant genus of Nymphaeaceae is so named.

In football and other sports clubs, the name was popular.

See also Victoria about other possible names for the persons name.

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