Jacinto
Masculine · “hyacinth”
Jacinto is a hyacinth, and the flower is named for a young man in a Greek story who was killed by a thrown discus. The blooms are supposed to have come up where his blood fell, which is one of the older explanations for a plant anyone has offered.
How old is the name Jacinto?
Jacinto first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Jacinto alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 2,200 people named Jacinto are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacinto most popular?
Jacinto peaked in 1944, reaching #1193 nationally. Today it ranks #2833, 1,640 places below that high. See the whole 1944 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hyakinthos to Jacinto
The story of Jacinto
Hyacinthus was a Spartan youth loved by Apollo and killed by a discus, and the flower was said to spring from where he fell. The name passed into Christian use through a series of saints, most visibly a thirteenth-century Polish Dominican, and Spanish and Portuguese kept it as Jacinto. The gemstone jacinth takes its name from the same word. In Spanish-speaking countries Jacinto has been an ordinary name for centuries, and it reaches United States records with Mexican and Spanish families rather than through any English route.
Meaning
hyacinth; the flower
Greek Hyakinthos names both the youth in the myth and a flower — though probably not the one modern botany calls a hyacinth, since the ancient descriptions do not match. The word itself is pre-Greek, taken over from a language spoken in the region before Greek arrived, which means the name is older than the story attached to it. The reading as the flower is documented; what the word originally meant is not recoverable.
How the name formed
- Hyakinthos
- Hyacinthus
- Jacinto
Related forms: Hyacinth · Jacinto · Giacinto · Hyacinthe · Jacek
Pronouncing Jacinto
hah-SEEN-toh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The Spanish J is a throat sound, not the English J, and in Spain the c is a th. English speakers say juh-SIN-toh, which is a different opening entirely.
Nicknames for Jacinto
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 boys named
- 202544 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1193reached in 1944
- Change vs 2023
- +2.3%44 in 2025, from 43
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.
Jacinto in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hyacinth in English — same name
- Jacinto in Portuguese — same name
- Giacinto in Italian — same name
- Hyacinthe in French — same name
- Jacek in Polish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jacintos among us
people named Jacinto are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 38,820 born in 2025 was named Jacinto
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 Amadeo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jacinto's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amadeo climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amadeo's path sketches the road Jacinto is walking now.
Jacinto 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 Jacinto is headed
Jacinto looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 48% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Jacinto beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jacinto in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented classical origin with an unusually memorable story attached.
- Chinto and Jaci are both established Spanish short forms.
- Three syllables that read correctly in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian alike.
- The Spanish and English pronunciations of the initial J are entirely different.
- It is a flower name for a boy, which is ordinary in Spanish and unusual in English.
- In the United States outside Spanish-speaking communities it will be spelled out often.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacintos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Jacinto are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacinto in 2025?
- Jacinto ranks #2833 among US boy names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jacinto?
- About 1 in every 38,820 US boys born in 2025 was named Jacinto — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jacinto with classmates?
- Jacinto will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jacinto
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