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My middle dd is named Victoria Brooke. My dh always wanted to call her Victoria and I always liked Brooke. The funny thing is that for the last five years or so, the family still has called her Brooke, however, she has introduced herself to everyone else (professors, employers, etc.) as Victoria. Part of the reason was that some people would insist on calling her Victoria (rather than Brooke) so she stopped trying to fight it. Now she loves it (both the sound of it and how professional it sounds) and I'm glad for I wish we had called her Victoria as well (or Toria, Tori or even Tora). I don't think the nn Vicky is inevitable although her friends in high school called her Icky Vicky for a time. It was all in jest, lol, and even I have to admit it's pretty funny.

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As for me, I love how Victoria looks written down. I love how it sounds. I love its tie to history (the Roman goddess of victory and the English queen) and how timeless it is. As a plus, there never have been that many girls named Victoria in my dd's classes. In fact, I can only think of one and she used the full name.

This message was edited 3/7/2014, 7:52 PM

I've actually known several Victoria's (both younger and older) whose names were never shortened and went by Victoria. I think if you make it clear it's Victoria, people will generally respect that.

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That being said, I really like the name (although I generally prefer it as a middle name, myself). Very classic, feminine and ages well.

Classy, easy to pronounce and spell... I love it. Victoria has moved into my top spot over Julia ONLY because it is easy to pronounce in many languages (Julia is pronounced differently in Spanish and German). Most people in most of the developed countries have been exposed to the name Victoria, so it is recognizable to many people around the world. That is very important to me.

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I prefer Vita and Toria as nicknames

I really like Victoria myself, for a lot the reasons others have mentioned already. My only problem with it? I really, really, really don't like the nicknames for it. Like, any of them. Vic, Vicky, Tori, Ree, Ria, Toria... I think they're all kinda blergh tbh That's the only reason I would never use it myself. I have used it in a story though, but the character was only ever called Victoria and nothing else :P Couldn't even bring myself to use one of those nns in a work of fiction!

Victoria has been a long time favorite of mine. It is one of the few names that has lasted over a decade on my ever changing PNL.

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I wrote a story with a character named Victoria and I had her go by V as a nickname. Just V. I thought it was cool...

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I think Vicky is "out" I don't think young kids are using Vicky as nickname any more. Kids are too cool these days for Vicky. If a Victoria gets a nickname it is going to be Tori.

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I love Victoria, it's so regal (for good reason) and pretty.

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I am with you on hating Vicky though. I think a lot of kids these days are using their full names rather than nicknames, for example Thomas' are just Thomas and not Tom's, but I would never use a name if I really hated the go-to nickname.

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Of course you could try to come up with another nickname you like and offer than as an alternative. I quite like Vika (Vee-KAH) as a nickname for Victoria.

Tori, Toria, Vita and Ria are other possible nicknames if you don't like Vicky.

Victoria is okay, but only okay. It seems so prim and regal and yet so commonplace. Like somebody would pick it for their daughter thinking how princessy and unique but would then find out that her daughter is one of two or three Victoria at her school.

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I happen to think Vicki is cute, but you hardly ever hear it on kids so I don't think any Victoria of yours would be likely to get called Vicki very often unless she asked for people to do that. Much more likely she'd get called Tori.

I think Victoria is a beautiful, regal name. At the same time, even though it is a "long" name with four syllables, there is a somehow a simplicity to it.

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I recently worked with a Victoria. No one ever shortened her name to anything, that I was aware of.

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Personally, I find Vicky perfectly OK, for what that's worth....

I have a 32-year-old daughter named Victoria. So obviously I think you can't do better when naming a daughter. I love everything about this name, the way it looks, the way it sounds, its elegance, how regal it is, its sophistication, the fact that it's ancient, that it was name of the Roman goddess of victory, and its historical connection to the Queen. I never considered any other name for my daughter, there were no lists and no discussions with my husband, I hit on Victoria before I had even become pregnant and it was perfect.

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There is just one little problem with it now, in the US, at least: its popularity. When choosing a name for my daughter, I had specifically wanted to avoid an overly popular name. Anything that was in the top fifty was absolutely out of contention. She was born in 1982. All throughout the 70s, Victoria had not been in the top hundred in the US, and had actually never even been a top fifty name here. But in 1981, as it turned out, it ended up rising to 87, and ended up at 65 in 1982, and kept rising, and it's been in the top fifty for a long time now.

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It's an interesting example of how people start liking a name at the same time, for no apparent reason, because I certainly didn't know when I used it that it was beginning a rise in popularity.

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But if popularity doesn't bother you, then you couldn't make a better choice.

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As for the nickname Vicky, my daughter has never been called that, but then again, we established a different nickname, Torrie. It might be inevitable if you insist on the full name. But I don't get the Vicky hate anyway, I don't see anything wrong with it. In fact, once in a while, I've wondered if I shouldn't have gone ahead and called my daughter Vicky, because most people assume a Vicky is a Victoria and many people, we've found, make no connection between Torrie (or Tori) and Victoria.