Vincenza

Where Vincenza comes from

Vincenza hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1784
    Vincenza Gerosa born
    Italian saint
  2. 1802
    Vincenza Maria Poloni born
    Roman Catholic Sister
  3. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,332 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1913
    Peak, #628
    67 babies named Vincenza — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,514.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vincenza Maria Poloni · Roman Catholic Sister, 1802–1855
  • Vincenza Gerosa · Italian saint, 1784–1847
  • Vincenza Calì · Italian athletics competitor, born 1983
  • Vincenza Armani · Italian stage actress, opera singer, poet and sculptor, 1530–1568
  • Vincenza Sicari · Italian marathon runner and 2008 Olympian, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.