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The Vicente surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,789 people carried this name — #3,326 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 27,300 people counted. That is up 69% from 6,374 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Vicente surname

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Vicente.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vicente» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 11,574 people named Vicente live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

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Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 6,204
City of Buenos Aires 996
Córdoba 755
Santa Fe 696
La Pampa 431
Mendoza 426
Salta 316
Chubut 207

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,323 people named Vicente.

657 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 67 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 657
Hauts-de-Seine 122
Hérault 86
Gironde 51
Bouches-du-Rhône 41
Paris 34
Gard 26
Tarn 25
Haute-Garonne 17

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

524 people named Vicente live in Switzerland.

They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Geneva 97
Vaud 86
Zurich 53
Valais 52
Fribourg 46
Bern 32
Basel-Stadt 25
Lucerne 19

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

26 people named Vicente is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 26

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Vicente,
with a public archive behind them.

  • João Vicente
    João Vicente 1380–1463 · physician
  • Gil Vicente
    Gil Vicente 1465–1536 · actor
  • Jerónimo Vicente d. 1699 · composer
  • Lourenço Vicente d. 1397 · archbishop
  • Paula Vicente 1519–1576 · writer
  • Miguel Vicente 1620–1657 · painter

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Vicente.

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