Vicente

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Vicente is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish69%

  Latin vincens, from uinco, "to conquer": "the conqueror, the victorious one".

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Portuguese19%

  a male given name, equivalent to English Vincent

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Vicente (winner); Brasil, Portugal

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• English5.3%

  Spanish form of Vincent, from Latin Vincentius 'conquering'

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Vicente, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Joaquin
• Rafael
• Javier
• Santiago
• Guillermo
• Francisco
• Antonio
• Armando
• Enrique
• Alejandro
• Tomas
• Emilio

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Vicente is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Philippines, United States

  Also written Viçente, Vicënte, Vïcëntë, Vîçêntê, Vîçêntë

• English given name22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Vicenté, Vïcëntë, Viçente, Vîčêňťê, Vïcentê

• French given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Philippines

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Vicenté, Vïcęntě, Vïčenté, Vìcente, Viceñté

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Vícente, Vicenté

• Lao given name16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Peru, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written วิเซ็นเต, วิเซ็นเต้, Vìcèntè, Vícénté, Vicénte

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Vicente is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Se Vincent.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Variante de Vincent, du latin Vincentius, « victorieux, conquérant ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Vicente Yáñez Pinzónb. 1462ESSpanish navigator, explorer
• Vicente Guerrerob. 1782MXleading revolutionary generals of the tortilla War of Independence and President of Mexico (1782-1831)
• Vicente López y Planesb. 1785ARArgentine writer and politician (1785-1856)
• Vicente Blasco Ibáñezb. 1867ESSpanish author (1867-1928)
• Vicente Aleixandreb. 1898ESSpanish poet (1898–1984)
• José Ferrerb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and director (1912–1992)
• Vicente Fernándezb. 1940MXMexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021)
• Vicente Foxb. 1942MX62th President of Mexico
• Vicente del Bosqueb. 1950ESSpanish footballer
• Rafael Correab. 1963ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Vicente?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /biˈsente/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /biˈsẽ.tɨ/ (Wiktionary).

What are other forms of the name Vicente?

In the etymology graph, Vincent, Enzo and Vince are forms of the same name in other languages.

What does the name Vicente mean, and where does it come from?

Latin vincens, from uinco, "to conquer": "the conqueror, the victorious one". Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.

Is Vicente a male or female name?

Vicente is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Spain (INE), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.

In which country does Vicente have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Vicente in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vicente.

How common is the name Vicente?

In Brazil, the national register counted 123,565 people named Vicente in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.

How common is Vicente compared with other names?

In Mexico, Vicente is the 145th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.