Vicente
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Conquering.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Vicente
Vicente is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Vincent, from the Latin vincens, meaning "conquering" or "prevailing." It carries the same triumphant root as its English cousin, paired with a warm, three-syllable Iberian rhythm that gives it grace as well as strength — a name of saints and tradition across the Hispanic world, dignified yet melodic and easy on the ear.
That blend of victory and elegance is central to its appeal. Vicente reads as dignified and lyrical, deeply familiar in Spanish-speaking households and carried by generations of bearers across centuries. It is the kind of classic, time-tested name that signals heritage and family continuity, equally suited to a grandfather and a newborn, and it has long been a stalwart among Hispanic-American families.
Vicente first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for boys in 2000 and has remained there every year since, reaching its peak early, in 2001, at rank #551. It stays comfortably current, ranked #639 in 2024 with 438 boys given the name, and stood at #681 in 2022. Having accumulated 9,137 boys across its top-1000 run, Vicente is a victorious, time-honored name with impressive consistency — a quiet fixture rather than a passing trend, carrying both strength and warm, rolling melody in equal measure across the generations.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Vicente
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Vicente by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 498 boys named Vicente (boy rank #589 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Vicente Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Vicente the strongest states are New Mexico, California, Texas.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #307 | 64 |
| 2 | California | #355 | 957 |
| 3 | Texas | #437 | 701 |
| 4 | Arizona | #439 | 172 |
| 5 | Nevada | #500 | 43 |
| 6 | Oregon | #564 | 41 |
| 7 | Colorado | #582 | 81 |
| 8 | Florida | #648 | 221 |
| 9 | Utah | #649 | 19 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #679 | 18 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #1,020 | 40 |
| 2 | Wisconsin | #840 | 16 |
| 3 | Illinois | #811 | 108 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | #770 | 28 |
| 5 | Minnesota | #734 | 20 |
| 6 | Washington | #699 | 71 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | #679 | 18 |
| 8 | Utah | #649 | 19 |
| 9 | Florida | #648 | 221 |
| 10 | Colorado | #582 | 81 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Vicente in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Vicente to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Vicente against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).