MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ciriaco mean?
Ciriaco is a Spanish and Italian form of Latin Cyriacus, from Greek Kyriakos. The Greek adjective means belonging to the Lord, from kyrios, lord.
Early Christian bearers helped preserve it as a personal name. The formation is religious, but it is distinct from the separate name Cyrus despite their visual similarity. The final o reflects the Romance-language form.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Spanish
- /θiˈɾjako/
- [θiˈɾja.ko]
- /siˈɾjako/
- [siˈɾja.ko]
Ci · ria · co3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From Spanish Ciriaco, from Latin, from Koine Greek.
a male given name from Koine Greek, equivalent to English Cyriac
Wiktionary: Ciriaco (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Inherited from Latin Cyriacus, from Koine Greek Κυριᾶκος (Kuriâkos, “Belonging to the Lord”).
a male given name from Koine Greek, equivalent to English Cyriac
Wiktionary: Ciriaco (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Ciriaco
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
Ciriaco Baronda
Filipino athletics competitor
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Ciriaco Cañete
Filipino martial artist
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
4
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
4
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Ciriaco Cañete, Ciriaco Baronda
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Ciriaco 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 Ciriaco
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
- Cipriano♂From Cyprus
- Cirilo♂Related to the Lord
- Cipriana·Feminine Cyprianus form: from Cyprus
- Climaco♂Ladder-related epithet preserved as an Italian personal name
- Ciara♀Irish feminine form of Ciar; dark
- Cicero·Roman cognomen associated with Latin chickpea
- Cielito♂♀Spanish affectionate sky or heaven form
- Cielo♀Sky; heaven
What rhymes with Ciriaco?
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Explore Ciriaco 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 Q4489019 — Ciriaco (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Ciriaco Cañete (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q4489019 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Ciriaco Baronda (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q4489019 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Ciriaco (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Ciriaco (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Ciriaco (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.