girls:
1.4k births since 1911
#4324 (24th percentile)
boys:
356.8k births since 1880
#96 (98th percentile)
overall:
358.2k births since 1880
#202 (97th percentile)
The name Vincent is the #202 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 358,212 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #96 (97.9% percentile) for all time with 356,807 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,324 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,405 births since 1911.
Vincent has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1911 for girls).
The name Vincent has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vincent reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 91.2% percentile (ranked #57) with 2,719 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 2,977 births per million (ranked 90.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Vincent ranks #117 for boys (87.3% percentile) with 1,628 births per million, which is 54.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vincent reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #702) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vincent".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vincent. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.7% confident that Vincent is pronounced as VIHN-suhnt, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VIHN-sihnt, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V IH1 N S AH0 N T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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