"That on the application of the owner Messers T. Dixon and Sons a new street on their property between Shamrock Street and Swift Street be named Victor Street". (Improvement Committee, 26th October 1892).
In view of its location close to Glentoran Place and to the site of the Coates family's house called Glentoran, it seems likely that Victor Place is named after Victor Coates, who founded Glentoran Football Club in 1882, or his grandfather, also Victor, who founded Lagan Foundry in 1799 with John Young. See also Glentoran Place.