Vicente
A masculine Spanish name deriving from the Late Latin "vincentius", meaning "conquering".
Name Census estimates that about 18,492 living Americans carry the first name Vicente. The name is used almost exclusively for boys. The average person named Vicente today is around 31 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Vicente births was 2023 (442 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Vicente. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
For a British comparison, Name Census UK has a UK baby-name profile for Vicente with official rankings and popularity over time.
People living today
18K
~ 1 in 18,535 Americans
Peak year
2023
442 babies that year
Average age
31
years old
2024 SSA rank
#639
Tracked since 1882
Census
Vicente in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 32,871 people with the first name Vicente, which placed it at #1,194 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#1,194
National first-name rank
People counted
33K
32,871 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
10.9
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
Hispanic or Latino
91.5% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Vicente
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Vicente is Hispanic at 91.5%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (5.5%) and White (2.1%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Vicente described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Vicente at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- Hispanic or Latino91.5% · 30,065
- Asian and Pacific Islander5.5% · 1,795
- White2.1% · 682
- Black or African American0.5% · 157
- Two or more races0.3% · 103
- American Indian and Alaska Native0.2% · 69
Popularity
Vicente: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Vicente from the 1880s through to the 2020s, spanning 15 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2000s, with 3,925 total registrations. Although the numbers have come down from the 2000s peak, Vicente remains solidly in use and shows no sign of disappearing from maternity wards.
Babies born per year
Decades
Vicente by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Vicente during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Geography
Where Vicentes live
The SSA's state-level files cover 33 states and territories. California, Texas, Arizona recorded the most babies named Vicente, while South Carolina, Missouri, Kansas recorded the fewest. The average across all reporting states is about 558 registrations each.
Origin
Meaning and history of Vicente
The name Vicente originated from the Latin name Vincentius, which means "conquering" or "victorious". It is derived from the Latin word "vincere", meaning "to conquer" or "to overcome".
Vicente was a popular name during the Roman era and was borne by several early Christian martyrs and saints. One of the most notable was Saint Vincent of Saragossa, a deacon who was tortured and martyred in Valencia, Spain, around the year 304 AD during the Diocletian persecution.
The name gained widespread popularity in Spain and Portugal, where it was often given to children in honor of Saint Vincent. It later spread to other parts of Europe and Latin America due to Spanish and Portuguese colonization.
One of the earliest recorded uses of the name Vicente can be found in the 12th-century literary work "Cantar de Mio Cid", which refers to a character named Vicente Muñoz. In the 13th century, Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419) was a renowned Spanish Dominican friar, philosopher, and logician known for his preaching and missionary work.
Other notable individuals named Vicente throughout history include Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460-1514), a Spanish navigator and explorer who was the first European to cross the equator in the Western Hemisphere; Vicente Guerrero (1782-1831), a Mexican revolutionary leader and the second President of Mexico; and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), a prominent Spanish novelist and writer.
In the 20th century, Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) was a Chilean poet and founder of the Creacionismo literary movement, while Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984) was a Spanish poet and Nobel Prize laureate in literature.
People
Vicente + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Vicente as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with V
Other first names starting with V with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Vicente: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Vicente?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 18,492 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Vicente going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 18,535 US residents.
Is Vicente a common name?
We classify Vicente as "Uncommon". It ranks above 98.4% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 21,451 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Vicente most popular?
The single biggest year for Vicente was 2023, when 442 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Vicente is about 31 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Vicente in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 32,871 people with the name Vicente, or 10.88 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #1,194 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Vicente in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Vicente?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Vicente appears almost entirely male. Of the 32,867 people counted with this name, 99.7% were male and only a very small share were female. The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Vicente?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Vicente is Hispanic at 91.5%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (5.5%) and White (2.1%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Vicente most often in the Census?
Hispanic is the largest reported group for people named Vicente in the 2020 Census, accounting for 91.5% (30,065 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Vicente in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Vicente a male name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Vicente in the SSA data are male. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Vicente still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Vicente in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Vicente can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How many people are named Vicente?
HowManyOfMe.org, our sister site, answers that with the living-bearer count in one glance.