MEANING & HISTORY
What does Vincent mean?
Vincent comes through French from Latin Vincentius, based on vincens, conquering, from vincere, to conquer. The name was borne by early Christian saints.
Its English and French spelling belongs to the same family as Spanish Vicente. The root uses a participle, describing the action of prevailing, rather than the abstract noun victory or a guaranteed result in someone’s life.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈvinsent/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈvin̪.sɛn̪t]Standard-Tagalog
- /ˈbinsent/with nativization
- [ˈbin̪.sɛn̪t̚]with nativization
Vin · cent2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Vincent, borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns + -ius. Doublet of Vicente.
a male given name from English
Wiktionary: Vincent (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Vincent, from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius.
an unknown-gender given name from English
Wiktionary: Vincent (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns (“conquering”), from the verb vincō.
A male given name from Latin.
Wiktionary: Vincent (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Vincent
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Vincent Bueno
Austrian-Filipino singer
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Vincent Crisologo
Filipino politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
9
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
13
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Vincent Bueno, Vincent Crisologo
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Vincent in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Vincent
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Vicenta·Feminine of Vicente/Vincent: conquering
- Vicente♂Conquering; prevailing
- Vince♂Short form of Vincent; conquering
- Vivien·Vivianus-family form, with a separate Arthurian literary history
- Brent♂Steep hill, through English place names
- Clement♂Merciful or gentle
- Kent·From the English county-name surname
- Millicent♀Work and strength, through Melisende
What rhymes with Vincent?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Recorded combinations with Vincent
3 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Vincent further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q4928254 — Vincent (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Vincent Bueno (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q4928254 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Vincent Crisologo (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q4928254 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Vincent (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Vincent (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Vincent (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Vincent (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.