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Vincent vs Vint

American parents have registered 364,716 Vincents since 1880, against 85 Vints. Vincent is still ahead, with 3,272 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vincent against Vint, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vincent Vint

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

Vincent has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Vincent had 4,223 and Vint had 34.

Side by side

  Vincent Vint
Total US births 364,71685
Most in one year 6,18634
Babies in 2025 3,272under 5
Estimated living today 260,00060
Median age today 3766
Peak year 19621959
Best rank 66th boys1,337th boys
Rank in 2025 107thunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 1,420 / 363,2960 / 85

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 Vints alive today are over 66; half the Vincents are over 37. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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