Entry № 4750 · Spanish origin

Jacinta Jacinta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-SEEN-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Hyacinth flower"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "hyacinth flower".

Jacinta is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Hyacinth — from the Greek hyacinth flower. Saint Jacinta Marto (1910-1920) was the youngest of the three Fatima visionaries, canonized in 2017.

Jacinta is widely used in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Hyacinth. The youngest Fatima visionary.

The name in its native script.

Jacinta
Transliteration
Jacinta
Pronunciation
/ həˈsiːn.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jacinta stands.

Jacinta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jacintas before her.

Real people
Saint Jacinta Marto
Fatima visionary.
1910 – 1920
In fiction
Jacinta
Common in Portuguese fiction.

Names connected to Jacinta.

The number behind Jacinta.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jacinta reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.