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Victor in Korean: 빅터

Victor is written 빅터 in Korean and read “Bikteo”. This is the spelling in the loanword usage list of the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL), which sets Korea’s spelling standards. In US birth records for 2000–2025 it ranks No. 239.

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Read as: Bikteo

Where the spelling 빅터 comes from

NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 빅터 for Victor.

People in the list with this given name:

  • 앰브로스, 빅터 — Victor Ambros
  • 벨링엄, 주드 (빅터 윌리엄) — Bellingham, Jude (Victor William)
  • 베스코보, 빅터 (랜스) — Vescovo, Victor (Lance)

…and 3 more in the list.

Look up 빅터 in the NIKL list (Korean)

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Vic빅tor터

Why it is spelled this way

  • Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.

Other possible spellings

빅토르Biktoreu · NIKL spelling of the Spanish name

What Victor means

“conqueror”

From Late Latin victor

Source: Wiktionary — Victor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Victor by the numbers

  • US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 239, 77,498 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
  • NIKL usage list — people with the given name 빅터: 6.

Korean names for Victor

These are the converter’s results for Victor as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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Closest in sound among real Korean names.

박우빈Park UbinBoy’s name · 48% sound match
박민우Park MinuBoy’s name · 44% sound match
박민재Park MinjaeBoy’s name · 42% sound match

No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics