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Vicent vs Vicente

American parents have registered 21,951 Vicentes since 1880, against 660 Vicents. Vicente is still ahead, with 498 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vicent against Vicente, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vicent Vicente

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Vicente has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Vicent had 16 and Vicente had 120.

Side by side

  Vicent Vicente
Total US births 66021,951
Most in one year 26498
Babies in 2025 under 5498
Estimated living today 60019,000
Median age today 4025
Peak year 19882025
Best rank 2,305th boys589th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked589th
First recorded 19271882
Girls / boys 0 / 6600 / 21,951

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vicents alive today are over 40; half the Vicentes are over 25. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vicent and Vicente.