Vincent

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Vincent boys named Vincent

By the numbers

Total US births

364,716

Estimated living today

260,000

Median age today

37

Peak year

1962

Best rank

66th

Rank in 2025

107th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

1,420 / 363,296

How old the living Vincents are

born that year still alive today

Of the 364,716 babies given the name since 1880, about 260,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 62,000 of them are children and 41,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns (“conquering”), from the verb vincō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Vincents

• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)Dutch painter
• Vincent Kompany (born 1986)Belgian association football player and manager
• Vincent Price (1911–1993)American actor
• Vincent de Paul (1581–1660)French priest, founder and saint
• Vincent Auriol (1884–1966)16th President of the French Republic
• Vincent Cassel (born 1966)French actor
• Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978)American biochemist
• Vincent Aboubakar (born 1992)Cameroonian association football player

People named Vincent with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Vincent is most common

• NY68,609
• CA42,893
• PA29,133
• NJ23,144
• IL18,369
• TX15,521
• OH14,664
• FL11,221
• MA11,200
• MI11,143

Relative to how many babies each state records, Vincent is most concentrated in New York (2.5×), New Jersey (2.3×), Rhode Island (2.1×), Connecticut (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1962

The most popular boys’ names the year Vincent peaked:

• Michael
• David
• John
• James
• Robert
• Mark

All the names of 1962

Vincent elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Vincent: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Vincent is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.20% of children were given it – 74 of them.

Vincent: rank by region

In 2025, Vincent was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Vincent was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Vincent was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Vincent appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (204th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Vincent by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Vincent among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Vincent lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 564 men called Vincent were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Vince
• Vincenzo
• Vina
• Vinnie
• Vinson
• Vincenza
• Vincente
• Vinh
• Vinny
• Vinita
• Vinay
• Vinton

Vincent against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Vincent vs Vince
• Vincent vs Vincenzo
• Vincent vs Vina
• Vincent vs Vinnie
• Vincent vs Vinson
• Vincent vs Vincenza

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