Vicente

Where Vicente comes from

Vicente hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1898
    Vicente Aleixandre born
    Spanish poet
  3. 1942
    Vicente Fox born
    62th president of Mexico
  4. 1994
    Peak, #522
    376 babies named Vicente — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vicente Aleixandre · Spanish poet, 1898–1984
  • Vicente Fox · 62th president of Mexico, born 1942
  • Vicente del Bosque · Spanish footballer and manager, born 1950
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Spanish author, 1867–1928
  • Vicente Guerrero · leading revolutionary generals of the War of Independence and President of Mexico, 1782–1831

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.