Vincent (disambiguation)

Vincent or Vincent is a male first name and surname of Latin origin.

  • 4.1 first name
  • 4.2 Surname

Name Variants

Variants

  • Male: Vincent ( English / French / Dutch / Swedish / Slovak)
  • Vincenzo ( Italian)
  • Vicenç (Catalan )
  • Vinko ( Croatian)
  • Vincent (Latin )
  • Wincenty ( Polish)
  • Винце (Serbian )
  • Vicente ( Spanish)
  • Vincenç ( Czech)
  • Bence ( Hungarian)
  • Vincenç
  • Vincent
  • Female: Vinzentia ( German )

Short forms

  • Male: Vince ( German / English)
  • Zenz ( German )

Origin and Meaning

The name is derived from the Latin name Vincentius, a further development of " vincens " ( victorious ) and is thus related to Viktor ( for " Winner" ). To spread in the Middle Ages was mainly due to the veneration of St. Vincent in which in Valencia was martyred in 304 under Diocletian.

Name Days

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

  • Vincent of Agen ( 3rd or 4th century)
  • Vincent of Augustin (1780-1859), Austrian field -marshal
  • Vincentius Bellovacensis (also: Vincent of Beauvais Vincent de Beauvais or, * 1184-1194, † 1264 ), French scholar, educator, and Dominicans
  • Vincent Berger (1883-1974), German plant breeders
  • Vincent Böröcz (1915-1994), Austrian politician ( KPO ) and printer
  • Vincenz Brehm (1879-1971), Austrian biologist and geographer animal
  • Vincent Bronzin (Italian Vincenzo; 1872-1970 ), Italian mathematician
  • Vinzenz Buchheit (1923-2008), German classical scholar
  • Vincent Chiavacci (1847-1916), Austrian writer
  • Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916), German surgeon
  • Vincent Dominic Romano (1751-1831)
  • Vincenz Ensinger (also Vincent; * to 1422/23, † after 1493 ), Swabian architect and sculptor
  • Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), Catalan monk
  • Vincenz Frigger (1909-1986), German painter and musician
  • Vincent of Cracow (1150-1223), a Polish bishop
  • Vinzenz Kiefer ( b. 1979 ), German actor
  • Dominic Kuenzer ( Vincent Ferreri Dominic Kuenzer; 1793-1853 ), Catholic priest and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • Vincent of Lérins (450), French monk and Church Father
  • Vincenz Eduard Milde ( also: Vinzenz Eduard Milde, 1777-1853 ), educator and Bishop of Leitmeritz and Archbishop of Vienna
  • Vincent Nohel (1902-1947), Austrian Nazi and Nazi perpetrators
  • Vincenz Prießnitz (1799-1851), Austro -Silesian Hydrotherapeut
  • Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), French theologian
  • Vincent of Saragossa († 304) Spanish saint and martyr

Family name

  • Gion Clau Vincent ( born 1921 ), Swiss politician (CVP )
  • Laurenz Matthias Vincenz (1874-1941), Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chur
  • Pierin Vincent ( born 1956 ), Swiss Manager; Since 1999 the CEO of Raiffeisen Switzerland
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