About the name Hipólito
Hipólito belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Hipólito first appears in Social Security records in 1904. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1131 in 1904, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 1,917 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.