MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jacinto mean?
Jacinto is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine name in the Hyacinthus family. The familiar flower association comes through Greek hyakinthos and the classical personal name.
Jacinta is a related feminine form, while English Hyacinth reflects another language route. The Tagalog dictionary records a Spanish borrowing. This chain gives a specific botanical name connection without proving which historical plant or religious bearer a family intended.
Jacinto should remain a given-name form in its own right, not be replaced with the ordinary flower word in personal records.
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.
Tagalog
- /haˈsinto/Standard-Tagalog
- [hɐˈsin̪.t̪o]Standard-Tagalog
- /kaˈsinto/Standard-Tagalog
- [k̠ɐˈsin̪.t̪o]Standard-Tagalog
Ja · cin · to3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Spanish
- /xaˈθinto/
- [xaˈθĩn̪.t̪o]
- /xaˈsinto/
- [xaˈsĩn̪.t̪o]
Ja · cin · to3 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.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Jacinto.
a male given name from Spanish, feminine equivalent Jacinta
Wiktionary: Jacinto (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
a male given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Jacinto (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos).
a male given name, equivalent to English Hyacinth
Wiktionary: Jacinto (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 Jacinto
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
Jacinto Zamora
Filipino priest martyred in 1872
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Jacinto Agcaoili Jose
Filippino Roman-Catholic bishop
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
14
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
7
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Jacinto Zamora, Jacinto Agcaoili Jose
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jacinto 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 Jacinto
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
- Jacinta♀Hyacinth; feminine form related to Jacinto
- Jacobo♂Spanish form of Jacob; traditionally linked to heel
- Jairo♂God enlightens; Spanish biblical form
- Janina♀God is gracious; a John-family feminine form
- Janine♀Familiar form of Jeanne; God is gracious
- Jack♂Medieval familiar form of John
- Jackie♂♀Familiar form of Jack, John or Jacqueline
- Jackson♂Son of Jack
What rhymes with Jacinto?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Recorded combinations with Jacinto
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Jacinto 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.
- 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 Q6903537 — Jacinto (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Jacinto Zamora (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q6903537 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Jacinto Agcaoili Jose (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q6903537 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jacinto (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jacinto (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jacinto (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.