Vince
Masculine · Latin roots · “conquering”
Vince is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 12,705 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Vince is the everyday form of Vincent, and behind Vincent stands the Latin Vincentius — a name early Christians gave their children and carried across the Roman world. One syllable, no silent letters, the same in the mouth as on the page. In the United States it has been recorded as a name in its own right for well over a century, never crowding the classroom, never disappearing either.
How old is the name Vince?
Vince first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Vince alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 10,500 people named Vince are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Vince most popular?
Vince peaked in 1962, reaching #321 nationally. Today it ranks #1362, 1,041 places below that high. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From vincere (Latin, 'to conquer') to Vince
The story of Vince
The root is the Latin verb vincere, to conquer, which gave the personal name Vincentius — 'the conquering one'. It spread widely through the early Christian centuries and was carried by Vincent of Saragossa, a deacon martyred in Spain in the fourth century, whose cult pushed the name across Spain, France and Italy. From Vincentius came French and English Vincent, Italian Vincenzo and Spanish Vicente, and from Vincent came the clipped Vince, used in English for generations before American records began counting it separately. In Hungarian, Vince is not a nickname at all but the full inherited form of the name, with its own place in the calendar of name days.
Meaning
conquering, from Latin vincere, 'to conquer'
How the name formed
- vincereLatin, 'to conquer'
- Vincentius
- Vincent
- Vince
Related forms: Vincenzo · Vicente · Vincent · Vince · Vinko · Wincenty
Pronouncing Vince
VINS
One syllable, rhyming with 'since'. The Hungarian form spelled the same way is said VEEN-tseh, which is worth knowing if the family has Hungarian ties.
Nicknames for Vince
High
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
- 1882
- Most boys named
- 1963595 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #321reached in 1962
- Change vs 2023
- +3.0%137 in 2025, from 133
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.
Vince in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Vincenzo in Italian — same name
- Vicente in Spanish — same name
- Vincent in French — same name
- Vince in Hungarian — same name
- Vinko in Croatian — related form
- Wincenty in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Vinces among us
people named Vince are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 12,468 born in 2025 was named Vince
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Freddy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Vince's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Freddy climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Freddy's path sketches the road Vince is walking now.
Vince sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Vince is headed
Vince should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Vince beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Vince in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spells itself: five letters, one syllable, no version anyone has to ask about twice.
- Comes with a ready-made formal option in Vincent, and ready-made casual ones in Vinny and Vin.
- Belongs to a family of names known worldwide — Vincenzo, Vicente, Vincent — so it travels without translation.
- Documented in English use for centuries and continuously present in American records, familiar without being everywhere.
- Most people will assume it is short for Vincent and may write the longer name on forms. If Vince is the whole name, expect to correct that fairly often.
- It is better represented among adults than among small children right now, so a young Vince will more often meet grown men with the name than classmates.
- Vinny arrives whether you invite it or not — worth deciding in advance whether that is a bonus or something you would rather steer away from.
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Masculine · Latin roots · #1362 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Vinces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,500 people named Vince are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Vince in 2025?
- Vince ranks #1362 among US boy names in 2025, with 137 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Vince?
- About 1 in every 12,468 US boys born in 2025 was named Vince — 137 in all.
- Will my child share the name Vince with classmates?
- Vince will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Vince
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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