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Jacinta

#4,396 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Hyacinthus

Jacinta has been given to 3,546 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #4,396 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Jacinta, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacinta: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Hyacinthus

Spanish

What Jacinta means

Jacinta is a feminine form of Hyacinthus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Spanish Jacinta. Variant of Jacinda and Jacintha.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jacinta is used in English, Cebuano and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Jacinta comes through Spanish Jacinta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hyacinthus, Jacinda and Hyacinth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Jacinta is pronounced /xaˈθinta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,546 girls were recorded with the name Jacinta between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,252 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,104 in 2020 to #4,396 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,339 in 2015 to #4,396 in 2025.

How common is Jacinta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,396
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacinta 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacinta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacintas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacinta was born before 1982 — so the typical Jacinta is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,279
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Choose a decade

1980s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (798).

Is Jacinta 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
+308
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−57
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 1982 (104)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
1982

Spellings of Jacinta

Jacinta is not the most common spelling — Jacinda is, with 25.9% against Jacinta's 21.6%.

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.

Where Jacinta is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacinta was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 148,441 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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. Jacinta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacinta around the world

Where Jacinta 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2015
    #426
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1964–2023
    #555
    in 2023
  • France
    1926–2022
    #5,911
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #403
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2003–2003
    #83
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jacinta

People whose public names include Jacinta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jacinta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jacinta. Linked forms have their own page here.

HiacyntaJacinthe

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jacinta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,396
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 292
Best rank ever
#1,252
1982
Peak year
1982
104 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,546
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Jacinta

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

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Names with a curve like Jacinta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jacinta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jacinta

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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