Meaning of the nameJacinto

Jacinto is a male name of Greek origin, which came into Portuguese through Latin Hyacinthus and derives from the name of the hyacinth flower.

Meaning

“derived from the name of the hyacinth flower”

Source: Behind the Name: Hyacinthus

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People (2022): 9,826
Rank in Brazil: #1,740
Median age: 60 years
2010 Census: 13,404; people

Jacinto in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Jacinto, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (2,667 people).

27 women 9,799 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Jacinto is most common

States with the highest share of people named Jacinto in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Piauí 0.014%
Tocantins 0.011%
Ceará 0.010%
Mato Grosso do Sul 0.009%
Paraíba 0.008%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	1,476	0.003%
Minas Gerais	1,141	0.006%
Ceará	849	0.010%
Bahia	749	0.005%
Rio Grande do Sul	534	0.005%
Rio de Janeiro	450	0.003%
Piauí	440	0.014%
Paraná	408	0.004%
Pará	405	0.005%
Maranhão	399	0.006%
Goiás	380	0.005%
Santa Catarina	363	0.005%
Paraíba	319	0.008%
Pernambuco	314	0.004%
Rio Grande do Norte	238	0.007%
Mato Grosso	234	0.006%
Mato Grosso do Sul	233	0.009%
Espírito Santo	181	0.005%
Tocantins	160	0.011%
Distrito Federal	119	0.004%
Amazonas	116	0.003%
Alagoas	102	0.003%
Rondônia	79	0.005%
Sergipe	48	0.002%
Acre	34	0.004%
Amapá	31	0.004%
Roraima	24	0.004%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Jacinto

Wiktionary lists Jacinto as a learned borrowing from Latin Hyacinthus, which comes from Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos). Behind the Name explains that Greek Hyakinthos derives from the name of the hyacinth flower and notes that, in Greek mythology, the flower grew from the blood of the young Hyakinthos; it also lists Jacinto as the Portuguese and Spanish form and Jacinta as the feminine form. It is an almost always male name, given mostly to people born in the 1950s and 1960s; proportionally, it is most common in Piauí. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 9,826 people named Jacinto, with a median age of 60.

Sources

Wiktionary: Jacinto · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Hyacinthus · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Jacinto · behindthename.com · origin
Behind the Name: Jacinta · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Jacinto

What does the name Jacinto mean?

Jacinto means “derived from the name of the hyacinth flower”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Jacinto in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 9,826 people with the first name Jacinto, which ranks it number 1,740 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Jacinto a boy's or a girl's name?

Jacinto is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 27 women and 9,799 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Jacinto?

Jacinto is a name of Greek and Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Jacinto most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.014% of the state's population is named Jacinto (440 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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