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Higinio

Boys' name

Form of Hyginus

Higinio has been given to 690 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1956, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Higinio, 2013

1 in 729,000

Higinio 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Higinio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hyginus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Higinio means

Higinio is a form of Hyginus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Higinio is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /i.ˈxi.njo/ for Higinio.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hyginus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Higinio is pronounced /iˈxinjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 690 boys were recorded with the name Higinio between 1914 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,815 in 1945.

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 Higinio?

Higinio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Higinio 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Higinio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Higinios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Higinio was born before 1963 — so the typical Higinio is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
13.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
463
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Choose a decade

1950s — 13.0% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Higinio 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 1956 (17)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,815
1945

Where Higinio is used

Across 1910–2025, Higinio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 224,592 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Higinio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Higinio around the world

Where Higinio 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
    1962–1974
    #2,245
    in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Higinio 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,815
1945
Peak year
1956
17 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
690
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Higinio

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

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Sibling names for Higinio

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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