Vicente

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Latin vincens, from uinco, "to conquer": "the conqueror, the victorious one"

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vicente is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 24th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 340(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 406
  • ESSpain1 in 494

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 people, est.

#735 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 340 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VicenteLatin(measured from records)
ВисентеCyrillic(measured from records)

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Vicente is read(measured from records)

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 nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese19%

    a male given name, equivalent to English Vincent

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Vicente (winner); Brasil, Portugal

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

  • English5.3%

    Spanish form of Vincent, from Latin Vincentius 'conquering'

    as a nameBaby 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vicente counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Vicente is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#122≈150,000 est.≈1 in 709—Vicente118
BR Brazil—123,5651 in 1.7K126K—4
ES Spain#58101,2751 in 494109KVicente238
CL Chile#151≈54,000 est.≈1 in 3401.5KVicente149
AR Argentina#210≈52,000 est.≈1 in 88212KVicente117
EC Ecuador#2441,6701 in 40642KVicente76
PY Paraguay#117≈11,000 est.≈1 in 652—Vicente45

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

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 nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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

    as a nameDictionnaire 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, b. 1462Vicente Guerrero, b. 1782Vicente López y Planes, b. 1785Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, b. 1867Vicente Aleixandre, b. 1898José Ferrer, b. 1912Vicente Fernández, b. 1940Vicente Fox, b. 1942Vicente del Bosque, b. 1950Rafael Correa, b. 1963

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 92 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Vicente
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—51K#89
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51K#89
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—12K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202437—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

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.
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.
Is Vicente a male or female name?
Vicente is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Vicente have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Vicente in the Philippines, 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 the Philippines, Vicente is the 122nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vicente” — the 122nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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