Viktor's name headcanon

When Fareed and Flannery and the other scientists were trying various methods to create a clone-hybrid from Lestat's sample, there was a competition to see who could produce the winning viable product. It was lighthearted and fun, and produced a little inner-lab rivalry between the scientists. After all, Viktor was created before the first publicly known mammalian clone, Dolly the sheep (Dolly was 1996, Viktor was 1994). Of course they couldn't go public with Viktor's creation, especially when part of the reason he was successful was due to the vampiric nature of the sperm.

When the scientists thought they were close they would claim they were the 'victor' of the competition, even if the resulting product most often didn't last more than a few days. In the end, Fareed was the one who did produce the 'victor' of the race, and his victory was successfully implanted into Flannery. The nickname for the coming baby was 'victor', though Flannery had the habit of just calling him baby Lestat. As the due-date approached and there was no better alternative for a name, they all landed on Viktor, with a little letter change to obscure why that was his name, even though Victor is a perfectly acceptable name, it was too close to thinking of him as a prize rather than a child.