Aquino Surname Origin & Formation

Origin and formation

Aquino refers to the town of Aquino in Italy. The place name is connected with Latin aqua, “water”; the Spanish surname can also honour Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose name refers to that town. The surname entered Tagalog through Spanish. In the Philippine family of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., Aquino was the paternal surname shared with his father Benigno Aquino Sr. Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco adopted Aquino through marriage to Ninoy. Their son Benigno Aquino III also bore Aquino, carrying the surname into a further generation.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ʔaˈkino/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Spanish: /aˈkino/ · 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.

• aquino · page 7 · column 6 · row 1 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Aquino has 23 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts