ABOUT THE NAME
About Angelito Hilario
Angelito Hilario combines the names Angelito and Hilario. Angelito is the Spanish diminutive of ángel, with -ito expressing affection or smallness. The name ultimately shares Greek angelos, messenger, with the wider angel-name family.
Hilario is the Spanish form of Latin Hilarius, associated with a word for cheerful or light-hearted. The Tagalog and Cebuano accounts record the Spanish route, while the scholarly medieval dictionary independently confirms the Latin sense. Hilary and Ilario belong to related language traditions.
The cheerful root can be explained without turning it into a prediction that every bearer will have an outgoing personality. Hilario is also a historical saint-name form, but the lexical meaning and a particular family’s devotional association are separate kinds of information.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
The cited sources trace Angelito Hilario through Spanish.
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate record · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
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- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata P21/P735 — Q1814728 (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata P21/P735 — Q535271 (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Hilario (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Hilario (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Hilario (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
- Philip Tagg: linguistic/name discussion (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: angelito (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — hilario (opens in a new tab)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — Hilary (opens in a new tab)