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Vicente vs Vickey

American parents have registered 21,951 Vicentes since 1880, against 5,947 Vickeys. Vicente is still ahead, with 498 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vicente Vickey

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

Of the 136 years in which either name was published, Vicente for 113 years and Vickey for 23 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Vicente Vickey
Total US births 21,9515,947
Most in one year 498402
Babies in 2025 498under 5
Estimated living today 19,0004,800
Median age today 2566
Peak year 20251957
Best rank 589th boys476th girls
Rank in 2025 589thunranked
First recorded 18821916
Girls / boys 0 / 21,9515,807 / 140

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 Vickeys alive today are over 66; half the Vicentes are over 25. That is 41 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vicente Vickey
Ireland 63

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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