A male name. Latin Vincentius, derivative of vincens ‘conquering’. There was a 3rd-C martyr of this name at Zaragoza, whose cult was fairly extensive; and the name is found in England from the 13th C, giving rise to the surnames Vincent, Vince, Vincey. Later the fame of St Vincent Ferrer, a 15th-C Spanish Dominican, and particularly of St Vincent de Paul, the 17th-C French founder of the Vincentian Order of the Sisters of Charity, increased its use in Roman Catholic countries. It also became fairly common in England in the 19th C.

Vincentius Curia Regis Rolls 1200, 1203, 1205, 1210, Vis of Berks 1433. Vincent Hundred Rolls 1273.

Latin vincens, conquering: cf., therefore, Victor. Vincentius adorned three ‘martyrs of the tenth persecution’ (under Diocletian in 303-4), and several other early martyrs as well; as it did St. Vincent of Lerins, the C5 author of the Commonitorium,—the great Dominican scholar of Beauvais (C13),—the even greater C14-15 Dominican preacher, Vincent Ferrer,—and St. Vincent de Paul (1576-1660), a noted divine and a splendid, practical social worker. (Yonge; Benedictines.)

From the Latin name Vincentius, from vincere, to conquer. The nickname is Vin.

Latin (masculine) - Victorious, invincible.

A Latin name, meaning: Conqueror: conquering.