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Giacinto

Boys' name

Possibly The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia), through Ὑάκινθος

Giacinto has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Giacinto, 1969

1 in 695,000

Giacinto over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giacinto: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia), through Ὑάκινθος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giacinto means

Giacinto belongs to the name family reached through Giacinto → Ὑάκινθος. Its meaning is “The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Giacinto is used in Italian.

Giacinto comes through Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ὑάκινθος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giacinto is pronounced /d͡ʒaˈt͡ʃin.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Giacinto between 1969 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1969; its best national rank was #4,627 in 1969.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Giacinto?

Giacinto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giacinto sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giacinto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giacintos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giacinto was born before 1969 — so the typical Giacinto is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Giacinto rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1969 (5)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,627
1969

Spellings of Giacinto

Giacinto is not the most common spelling — Jacinto is, with 99.8% against Giacinto's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Giacinto around the world

Where Giacinto ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1925–1966
    #1,573
    in 1966
  • South Australia
    1962–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Giacinto by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,627
1969
Peak year
1969
5 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Giacinto

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Giacinto

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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