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Vincent vs Vincenzina

American parents have registered 364,716 Vincents since 1880, against 107 Vincenzinas. Vincent is still ahead, with 3,272 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vincent against Vincenzina, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vincent 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

Vincent has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1911, when Vincent had 506 and Vincenzina had 8.

Side by side

  Vincent Vincenzina
Total US births 364,716107
Most in one year 6,18613
Babies in 2025 3,272under 5
Estimated living today 260,0001
Median age today 37100
Peak year 19621924
Best rank 66th boys2,661st girls
Rank in 2025 107thunranked
First recorded 18801911
Girls / boys 1,420 / 363,296107 / 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 Vincents are over 37. That is 63 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 Vincent Vincenzina
France 232,93560

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: Vincent and Vincenzina.