Jacinto is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “Hyacinth.” In 2024 it was given to 45 boys in the United States.
Jacinto at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish · Portuguese
Meaning
“Hyacinth”
About the name Jacinto
Jacinto belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Its meaning — “Hyacinth” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Jacinto first appears in Social Security records in 1909. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1201 in 1944, and in 2024 45 babies received the name — 2,914 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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