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Vince vs Vincenzina

American parents have registered 12,710 Vinces since 1880, against 107 Vincenzinas. Vince is still ahead, with 137 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vince against Vincenzina, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vince Vincenzina

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 119 years in which either name was published, Vince for 118 years and Vincenzina for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Vince Vincenzina
Total US births 12,710107
Most in one year 59513
Babies in 2025 137under 5
Estimated living today 11,0001
Median age today 44100
Peak year 19631924
Best rank 323rd boys2,661st girls
Rank in 2025 1,362ndunranked
First recorded 18821911
Girls / boys 5 / 12,705107 / 0

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 Vincenzinas alive today are over 100; half the Vinces are over 44. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Vince Vincenzina
France 58560

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: Vince and Vincenzina.