Jacinta
Feminine · “hyacinth”
Jacinta is the Spanish and Portuguese for hyacinth, and its best-known bearer was one of the three shepherd children at Fátima.
How old is the name Jacinta?
Jacinta first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Jacinta alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 3,200 people named Jacinta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacinta most popular?
Jacinta peaked in 1982, reaching #1251 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 3,101 places below that high. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hyakinthos to Jacinta
The story of Jacinta
Jacinta Marto was seven when the apparitions at Fátima began in 1917 and died of influenza three years later; she was canonized in 2017, one of the youngest non-martyrs ever recognized. Her name made Jacinta very common in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries afterward. It appears in American records with Mexican and Filipino families in real numbers.
Meaning
hyacinth
From Greek Hyakinthos, a name whose -nth ending marks it as pre-Greek and whose meaning in that older language is unrecoverable; Latin took hyacinthus and Spanish gives Jacinto and Jacinta.
How the name formed
- Hyakinthos
- Hyacinthus
- Jacinta
Related forms: Jacinta · Jacinta · Hyacinth
Pronouncing Jacinta
hah-SEEN-tah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle; the j is a throat sound in Spanish.
Nicknames for Jacinta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1909
- Most girls named
- 198199 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1251reached in 1982
- Change vs 2023
- −13.5%32 in 2025, from 37
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jacinta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacinta in Spanish — same name
- Jacinta in Portuguese — same name
- Hyacinth in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Minnesota.
Jacintas among us
people named Jacinta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Jacinta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tuesday test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jacinta's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tuesday climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tuesday's path sketches the road Jacinta is walking now.
Jacinta sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jacinta is headed
Jacinta should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jacinta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jacinta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning tied to a real and strongly scented flower.
- A documented and recently canonized child behind the modern use.
- Every letter but the j behaves as English readers expect.
- The Spanish j is a throat sound English speakers will render as a j.
- The Greek original's meaning is genuinely unrecoverable.
- It reads as of an older generation to some Spanish speakers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacintas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Jacinta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacinta in 2025?
- Jacinta ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jacinta?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Jacinta — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jacinta with classmates?
- Jacinta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jacinta
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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