MEANING & HISTORY
What does Aquilino mean?
Aquilino continues Latin Aquilinus, a derivative of the Roman name Aquila. Aquila is the Latin word for eagle.
The name thus has an animal-name relationship rather than a modern character description. Care is needed with similar Latin forms: aquilus means dark-coloured, not eagle. The Aquilinus–Aquila chain supplies the relevant explanation here.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
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SpanishEtymology & source
Derived from Latin Aquilinus, from aquilus (“eagle”).
a male given name
Wiktionary: Aquilino (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Aquilino
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Aquilino Pimentel III
Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines since 2022
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2000 to 2001
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Aquilino Pimentel III
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Aquilino in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Aquilino
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Aquilina·Latin diminutive with eagle or dark-coloured explanations
- Quirino♂Form of Roman Quirinus
- Adelino·Noble, through Adela
- Agripino·Derivative in the Roman Agrippa name family
- Angelino♂Familiar form of Angelo or Ángel
- Aquiles♂Spanish and Portuguese Achilles-name form
- Avelino♂From Saint Andrea Avellino’s Italian place-derived surname
- Paulino♂Derived from Paulus, meaning small
What rhymes with Aquilino?
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Explore Aquilino further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q39488707 — Aquilino (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q39488707 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Aquilino Pimentel III (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q39488707 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Aquilino (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Aquilino (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: aquilinus (opens in a new tab)
Independent onomastic comparison and qualifications to the proposed origin.
- Behind the Name: aquila (opens in a new tab)
Independent source-name account consulted for formation and any qualifications.