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Vincent vs Vincenzo

American parents have registered 364,716 Vincents since 1880, against 10,659 Vincenzos. Vincent is still ahead, with 3,272 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vincent Vincenzo

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 2022, when Vincent had 2,986 and Vincenzo had 395.

Side by side

  Vincent Vincenzo
Total US births 364,71610,659
Most in one year 6,186403
Babies in 2025 3,272403
Estimated living today 260,0009,700
Median age today 3715
Peak year 19622025
Best rank 66th boys674th boys
Rank in 2025 107th674th
First recorded 18801900
Girls / boys 1,420 / 363,2960 / 10,659

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 Vincents alive today are over 37; half the Vincenzos are over 15. That is 22 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 Vincent Vincenzo
France 232,9352,550
Italy 77148,501
England and Wales 8,313622
Belgium 3,657485
Ireland 4,01310
Switzerland 2,077254
Poland 1,46632
Scotland 7586

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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Related comparisons

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