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Vicente vs Vick

American parents have registered 21,951 Vicentes since 1880, against 606 Vicks. Vicente is still ahead, with 498 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vicente against Vick, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vicente Vick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Vicente for 136 years and Vick for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Vicente Vick
Total US births 21,951606
Most in one year 49820
Babies in 2025 498under 5
Estimated living today 19,000330
Median age today 2562
Peak year 20251951
Best rank 589th boys1,683rd boys
Rank in 2025 589thunranked
First recorded 18821891
Girls / boys 0 / 21,9515 / 601

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vicks alive today are over 62; half the Vicentes are over 25. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vicente Vick
France 1,40045
Belgium 1113

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vicente and Vick.