Jacinta
Jacinta was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,396 among girls’ names; 3,546 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,170 Americans named Jacinta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacinta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacinta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jacinta is “a female given name.”
Borrowed from Spanish Jacinta. Variant of Jacinda and Jacintha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacinta?
#4,396 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacinta fell from #4,339 in 2015 to #4,396 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 19.9 per million.
104 babies in 1982, the peak
Jacinta peaked in 1982, when 104 girls were given it, #1,252 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,396 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,704 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,009 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,241 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,547 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,104 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,962 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,399 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,030 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,696 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,339 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,215 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,298 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,434 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,018 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,746 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,970 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,427 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,965 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,506 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,146 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,632 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,547 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,319 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,268 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,352 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,125 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,867 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,123 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,685 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,523 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,854 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,950 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,325 | 30.4 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,057 | 35.2 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,441 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,911 | 36.9 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,771 | 39.9 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,950 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,554 | 45.5 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,593 | 43.6 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,375 | 51.1 |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,515 | 44.9 |
| 1982 | 104 | #1,252 | 61.4 |
| 1981 | 99 | #1,288 | 59.4 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,449 | 50.6 |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,342 | 57.3 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,413 | 53.5 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,520 | 47.0 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,667 | 40.3 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,387 | 52.1 |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,477 | 45.7 |
| 1973 | 67 | #1,446 | 45.9 |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,318 | 50.6 |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,615 | 34.9 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,624 | 33.2 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,506 | 36.8 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,584 | 32.3 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,661 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,613 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,700 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,433 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,232 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,967 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,571 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,118 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,897 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,955 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,134 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,282 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,766 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,809 | 17.0 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,943 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,040 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,274 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,151 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,090 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,751 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,555 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,659 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,812 | 8.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,961 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,898 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,739 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,649 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,978 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,638 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,235 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,506 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,607 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,504 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,093 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,183 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,498 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,448 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,408 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,723 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,022 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,884 | 9.6 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,455 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,151 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,175 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,323 | 5.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,602 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,522 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,665 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,182 | 9.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,365 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacinta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacinta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacinta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacinta, and how old are they?
3,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 3,546 Americans ever recorded as Jacinta. The median Jacinta alive today is 42 years old; half are between 27 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 4,919 people named Jacinta (4,904 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 32 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 337 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 909 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 458 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 403 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jacinta born?
The states with the most babies named Jacinta are California, Texas and Georgia, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 156 | #3,289 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 120 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 93 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 82 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 64 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jacinta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jacinta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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