Jacinto
Jacinto was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,856 among boys’ names; 2,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,190 Americans named Jacinto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 21 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacinto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacinto mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Jacinto is “a male given name, equivalent to English Hyacinth”
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos).
/xaˈθinto/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacinto?
#2,856 among boys’ names, 2025
Jacinto rose from #4,340 in 2015 to #2,856 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 25.8 per million.
45 babies in 2024, the peak
Jacinto peaked in 2024, when 45 boys were given it, #2,846 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,856 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,846 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,914 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,239 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,998 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,925 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,029 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,150 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,819 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,040 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,340 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,942 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,899 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,305 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,884 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,582 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,080 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,074 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,938 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,110 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,113 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,680 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,142 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,778 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,502 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,494 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,821 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,613 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,514 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,499 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,461 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,229 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,971 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,187 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,063 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,817 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,838 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,923 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,875 | 18.2 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,070 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,577 | 22.2 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,513 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,670 | 19.5 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,830 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,644 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,783 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,923 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,034 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 32 | #1,686 | 19.5 |
| 1976 | 40 | #1,418 | 25.5 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,853 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,674 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,623 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 38 | #1,372 | 23.4 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,506 | 18.7 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,477 | 17.8 |
| 1969 | 36 | #1,336 | 20.1 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,267 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,487 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 26 | #1,525 | 14.6 |
| 1965 | 28 | #1,467 | 15.1 |
| 1964 | 34 | #1,359 | 17.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,719 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,530 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,448 | 14.6 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,789 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,605 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,705 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,528 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,779 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,518 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,157 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,318 | 16.7 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,597 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,702 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,300 | 17.3 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,478 | 14.1 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,441 | 14.8 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,201 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,285 | 18.5 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,729 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,201 | 22.7 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,326 | 19.6 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,559 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,043 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,321 | 22.4 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,673 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,035 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,603 | 17.8 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,757 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,470 | 21.1 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,697 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,958 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,747 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,610 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,861 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,703 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,586 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,839 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,757 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,319 | 27.8 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,934 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,620 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,096 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,309 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,527 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,322 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,618 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,058 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,820 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,092 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,786 | 10.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,413 | 14.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,502 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,372 | 36.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacinto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacinto has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacinto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacinto, and how old are they?
2,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 2,958 Americans ever recorded as Jacinto. The median Jacinto alive today is 37 years old; half are between 21 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 6,387 people named Jacinto (29 women and girls, 6,358 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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 | 71 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 312 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 439 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 545 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 459 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 358 |
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 Jacinto born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,696 | 5.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,602 | 1.5× |
Where Jacinto is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacinto is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jacinto 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 Jacinto
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.
More about Jacinto and names like it
- Compare Jacinto and CecilioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJacinto peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacinto since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jacinto: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jacinto.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jacinto alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.