eli5: how does romaji work with english names?

Question

if my name is Victor then the Japanese name would be ヴィクトル but then why does the romaji spelling become Vikutoru instead of Victor?

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Answer 1

Because that’s not what ヴィクトル says. It’s Vikutoru. You can’t write Victor properly in Japanese katakana, it doesn’t have the characters for it. The individual characters you’ve written corrospond to “Vi”, “Ku”, “To” and “Ru”. That is how it would be read by someone looking at those characters.

Also, that’s not how you’d write it anyway. Victor is written as ビクター in Katakana.