Vicenta — girls' name
1,127 babies named Vicenta in U.S. Social Security records since 1901, with the highest year being 1924. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Vicenta was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Vicenta in 1924 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vicenta
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,127 babies named Vicenta between 1901 and 2021, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vicenta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vicenta performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 256 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Vicenta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 498 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Vicenta in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vicenta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,127 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Vicenta at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Vicenta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1901
- Peak year (1924)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 121 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
1,127 total births across 121 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1924 with 36 births in a single year.
Vicenta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 256 births that decade — 23% of Vicenta's all-time total
Vicenta decade highlights
- Peak decade 256 births
- Runner-up 174 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Vicenta's strongest decade
256 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Vicenta by state
Where Vicenta concentrates geographically — total births since 1901
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 498 | 44.2% |
| #2 | California | | 29 | 2.6% |
| #3 | New Mexico | | 5 | 0.4% |
498 of 1,127 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 44.2% of nationwide
- California 2.6% of nationwide
- New Mexico 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 44.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1901–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.