Meaning and formation
Aguilar has the original sense “eagle’s lair”, connected with Spanish águila, “eagle”. Its Spanish formation links the surname to places associated with eagles. Aguilar is included on printed page 3 of the 1849 Philippine Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ʔaɡiˈlaɾ/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /ʔaɡiˈlaɾ/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /aɡiˈlaɾ/ · Wiktionary ↗
In the 1849 Catálogo transcription
The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.
- aguilar · page 3 · column 2 · row 72 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Aguilar has 27 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts