Vicenta
Feminine · “Conquering”
The Vincent this name comes from turned charity into an organization with accounts and staff. Before him, relief of the poor in France was individual and haphazard; he built structures for it, trained people, kept records, and made the whole thing continue after the founder had died, which is the part almost nobody manages.
How old is the name Vicenta?
Vicenta first appears in US birth records in 1901 — 124 years ago. The typical Vicenta alive today was born around 1936, making them about 89 years old. About 500 people named Vicenta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Vicenta most popular?
Vicenta peaked in 1907, reaching #1037 nationally. See the whole 1907 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Vincens to Vicenta
The story of Vicenta
The society that carries his name was founded by students two hundred years after he died. A group of undergraduates in Paris, challenged in a debate about whether the church had ever done anything useful, decided to answer by visiting the poor themselves, took him as their patron and organized into small local groups that met weekly and reported to each other. It spread to a hundred and fifty countries and is still going. A twenty-year-old losing an argument produced one of the largest volunteer organizations in the world, which is a better outcome than most debates manage.
Meaning
Conquering
Latin vincens, the present participle of the verb to conquer, so the name means conquering rather than conqueror. It is a participle used as a name, which Latin did readily and English does not. The Spanish feminine is formed from the masculine by changing the final vowel.
How the name formed
- Vincens
- Vicente
- Vicenta
Related forms: Vicenta · Vincenza · Vicencia
Pronouncing Vicenta
vee-SEN-tah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The c before an e is an s across Latin America and a th in most of Spain, which is the largest single difference between the two continents' Spanish.
Nicknames for Vicenta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1901
- Most girls named
- 192130 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1037reached in 1907
- Change vs 2009
- +40.0%7 in 2021, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Vicenta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Vicenta in Spanish — same name
- Vincenza in Italian — same name
- Vicencia in Portuguese — same name
Vicentas among us
people named Vicenta are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Vicenta sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a standard Spanish name rather than an American construction.
- The meaning is transparent and grammatically interesting.
- Three short forms in two languages, all quite unlike each other.
- English speakers will read the c as a k or say the name as Vincenta.
- It is dated in Spanish-speaking communities and reads as a grandmother's name there.
- The participle meaning is hard to render in English without sounding odd.
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- How many Vicentas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Vicenta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Vicenta in 2025?
- Vicenta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Vicenta with classmates?
- Vicenta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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