# Vincent (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vincent/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “conquering” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈvɪnsənt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Vin, Vince, Vinnie, Vinny |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 364,716 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 363,296 / 1,420 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,313, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | 15,278 |
| 2002 | 9 | 11,068 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15,691 |
| 2004 | 12 | 9,243 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16,359 |
| 2006 | 9 | 12,379 |
| 2007 | 5 | 20,411 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,866 |
| 2015 | 6 | 16,299 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,812 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,659 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,830 |
| 2022 | 8 | 12,180 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,521 |
| 2025 | 5 | 17,117 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,800 | 101 |
| 2012 | 3,733 | 104 |
| 2013 | 3,859 | 101 |
| 2014 | 3,764 | 104 |
| 2015 | 3,727 | 109 |
| 2016 | 3,840 | 104 |
| 2017 | 3,668 | 108 |
| 2018 | 3,572 | 108 |
| 2019 | 3,346 | 115 |
| 2020 | 3,045 | 121 |
| 2021 | 3,199 | 117 |
| 2022 | 2,978 | 123 |
| 2023 | 2,996 | 120 |
| 2024 | 3,168 | 111 |
| 2025 | 3,267 | 107 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 259 | 203 |
| 2012 | 312 | 183 |
| 2013 | 344 | 163 |
| 2014 | 332 | 174 |
| 2015 | 387 | 145 |
| 2016 | 380 | 156 |
| 2017 | 380 | 151 |
| 2018 | 384 | 145 |
| 2019 | 413 | 136 |
| 2020 | 432 | 126 |
| 2021 | 425 | 134 |
| 2022 | 390 | 141 |
| 2023 | 424 | 127 |
| 2024 | 453 | 118 |
| 2025 | 560 | 93 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Վինսենթ, Վիգեն
- Catalan: Vicent, Vicenç
- Chinese: 文森特
- Czech: Vincenc
- Danish: Vincent
- Dutch: Vincent
- French: Vincent
- German: Vinzenz, Vincent
- Greek: Βικέντιος, Βίνσεντ
- Hungarian: Vince, Bence
- Irish: Uinseann
- Italian: Vincenzo
- Latin: Vincentius
- Latvian: Vincents
- Lithuanian: Vincentas, Vincas
- Polish: Wincenty
- Portuguese: Vicente
- Romanian: Vincențiu
- Russian: Винсе́нт, Вике́нтий
- Slovene: Vincenc, Vinko

## People named Vincent

- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853–1890)
- Vincent Kompany, Belgian association football player and manager
- Vincent Price, American actor (1911–1993)
- Vincent de Paul, French priest, founder and saint (1581-1660)
- Vincent Auriol, 16th President of the French Republic (1884–1966)
- Vincent Cassel, French actor (born 1966)
- Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist (1901–1978)
- Vincent Aboubakar, Cameroonian association football player
- Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor and filmmaker (born 1959)
- Vincent Candela, French footballer (born 1973)
- Vincent Gallo, American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
- Norman Vincent Peale, American writer and minister (1898-1993)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.