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Vincenza vs Vincenzo

American parents have registered 10,659 Vincenzos since 1880, against 3,692 Vincenzas. Vincenzo is still ahead, with 403 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vincenza Vincenzo

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 132 years in which either name was published, Vincenza for 66 years and Vincenzo for 66 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Vincenza Vincenzo
Total US births 3,69210,659
Most in one year 122403
Babies in 2025 21403
Estimated living today 1,3009,700
Median age today 4815
Peak year 19222025
Best rank 657th girls674th boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd674th
First recorded 18911900
Girls / boys 3,692 / 00 / 10,659

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 Vincenzas alive today are over 48; half the Vincenzos are over 15. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Vincenza Vincenzo
Italy 2,20848,501
France 4252,550
England and Wales 13622

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: Vincenza and Vincenzo.