What does your name mean?

Real Name: Victoria
Real meanings:
Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman

Pronounced: vik-TOR-ee-a [key]

Feminine form of VICTORIUS. This name was borne by a long-reigning queen of England. A Canadian city bears this name in her honour, as well as an Australian state and several other geographic areas. In Roman Mythology it Means "victory" in Latin. Victoria was the Roman goddess of victory.


Personal meaning: I was the only baby that didn't miscarage, so my mom named me Victoria because of that (using the mean's victory meaning). But unfortunatly I'm doomed to have everyone call me Vicki because of my name...I mean I like my name but I just got to say, why does everyone think Victoria automadicly shortens to Vicki for gosh sakes ....

Nickname: Tori
Shortened form of Victoria
Name I usualy go by (NOT VICKI, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!)
I just thought I toss that up there. One time we went to eat out at a Japanese restraunt. The manager was there greating everybody. He asked my name and I said Tori. And he just said "Ah....that's a good name. Do you know it means Bird?" The name (Other then being Bird in Japanese and being a short form of Victoria) doesn't have any other meaning.

Names that could have been:

Austin (If I were a boy)
Screw all the other meanings, my dad just wanted to name me after his freaking favorite car! (He liked Austin Heleies) Heck...I still think my dad wanted to name me that after I came out a girl.....

Zoe
Because my mom thought it was cool.....And they liked baby blues.....

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Arkhangelsk

Interesting. My mother's name is Victoria as well, and she naturally shortens it to "Vicki." Her only bone of contention with the shortened form is that most people try to spell it with an 'e' on the end.

I never think about Tori being a shortened version of Victoria. It reminds me of how Topher Grace shortens his name to the '-topher' instead of 'chris-.'

For my nickname, Karli means "Covered in Snow" in Polish. I used to think this was a bit ironic, since when I was younger I had a problem with dandruff ...

I get the misspelled name treatment aswell. People spell my name 'Tory' no matter how many times I say it's spelled with an 'i' people spell it with a 'y' each time....Tory is only second to Vicki on the annoyance scale. I don't know why they annoy me so much...they just have ever since Pre-school....I mean I have nothing against the names themselves, but I just don't like to be called them for some reason. My mom used to joke about how in the Animaniacs Dot said "Call me Dotty and you die..." She always said "Yep, that sounds like you alright." of corse reffering to the Vicki/Tori thing.

How ya doing, buddy?