Vincent

At the 2020 census, 51,329 Americans bore the surname Vincent — 647th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,823.

By the numbers

People: 51,329
Rank: 647th
How common: 1 in 5,823
Per 100,000: 17.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Vincent described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Vincent

Kayne Vincent (born 1988)New Zealand association football player
Gene Vincent (1935–1971)American rock musician
Frank Vincent (1937–2017)American actor
Jan-Michael Vincent (1944–2019)American actor
Jean Vincent (1930–2013)French association football player and manager
Vinnie Vincent (born 1952)American guitarist
François-André Vincent (1746–1816)French painter
Alex Vincent (born 1981)American actor

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

Surnames like Vincent

Also a first name

Vincent has been given to 364,716 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.