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Hyacinth

#4,293 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hyacinth has been given to 984 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #4,293 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Hyacinth, 2025

1 in 100,000

Hyacinth over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hyacinth: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ancient Greek, English and Latin

What Hyacinth means

Hyacinth has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Hyacinthus, a saint's name from Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos), the name of a mythological character.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hyacinth (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hyacinth is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include Ancient Greek, English and Latin.

Hyacinth comes through Latin Hyacinthus and Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος.

The given-name sense places Hyacinth among flower names.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ὑάκινθος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hyacinth is pronounced /ˈhaɪ.ə.sɪnθ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 984 girls were recorded with the name Hyacinth between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,025 in 2020 to #4,293 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,248 in 2015 to #4,293 in 2025.

How common is Hyacinth?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,293
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hyacinth sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hyacinth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hyacinths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hyacinth was born before 1948 — so the typical Hyacinth is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
483
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Hyacinth 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
+518
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+11,732
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,955
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (33)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
1909

Where Hyacinth is used

Across 1910–2025, Hyacinth was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,488,061 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Hyacinth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hyacinth around the world

Where Hyacinth 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.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hyacinth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,293
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 11,732
Best rank ever
#1,177
1909
Peak year
2025
33 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
984
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Hyacinth

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

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Sibling names for Hyacinth

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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