Vicente
A Spanish name rooted in Latin, meaning "conquering". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a hundred men carry it, and boys are given it only a handful of times across the years.
Vicente Pronunciation
What Vicente means
Where Vicente comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vicente is the Spanish form of a Latin name grown from the verb vincere, to conquer. Its meaning stays with that root: conquering. Latin speakers formed Vincentius, and Spanish wore it down to Vicente over generations of use.
The name spread with the church. Vincent Ferrer, a Dominican preacher born in Valencia around 1350, carried it across western Europe and became a patron saint of that city. Centuries later Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, a Spanish poet who kept the same four syllables his whole life.
In Poland the name is rare. A Vicente on a class register in Kraków would sit oddly beside a row of Wincentys, though both trace back to the one Latin verb. The victory inside the root is not a single battle. It is the plainer idea of prevailing, held in a name whose short meaning is simply conquering.
How many people are named Vicente
1 in 248211 men in Poland is named Vicente. 86 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3814 among male names.
Vicente's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1870 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Vicente as a middle name
Vicente is a first name for 86 men in Poland and a middle name for another 70, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 868th, between Sławosz (70) and Yesid (70).
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#866 Ramos70
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#867 Sławosz70
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#868 Vicente70
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#869 Yesid70
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#870 Frederic69