Hyacinth
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hyacinth is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 88th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Greek, “purple”; formerly used in Ireland, probably to translate a native name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 14K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek, “purple”; formerly used in Ireland, probably to translate a native name.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyacinth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Hyacinth | 61 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Hyacinth | 77 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Hyacinth | 5 |
| US United States | — | 2,816 | 1 in 118K | 2.7K | Hyacinth | 247 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Hyacinth | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #88 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Hyacinth | 17 |
| GY Guyana | #296 | 187 | 1 in 4K | 187 | Hyacinth | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-ng-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hyacinth is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hyacinth Faberb. 1620FR1620-1670; Not found in: Internat. biogr. Index, LoC-NA; aus München; Franziskaner
- William Houghtonb. 1736not in their usual nameEnglish Dominican friar
- Charles Hyacinth Valergab. 1818ITItalian priest (1818–1864)
- Hyacinth Martensb. 1847BEBelgian architect (1847-1919)
- Hyacinthe Julien Robert Vanderystb. 1860BEnot in their usual nameanthropologist, agronomist, botanist, naturalist and scientific collector (1860-1934)
- Violet Bowes-Lyonb. 1882not in their usual name(1882-1893); elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; aunt of Elizabeth II
- Hyacinth Harmegniesb. 1892BEBelgian politician (1892-1973)
- Ralph Honnerb. 1904AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer and military officer (1904–1994)
- Pierre Hyacinth Conwayb. 1915USDominican priest
- Hyacinth Tungutalumb. 1946AUAustralian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #5,888 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 187 | #408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 118 | #5,888 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 18 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hyacinth mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek, “purple”; formerly used in Ireland, probably to translate a native name. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Hyacinth a male or female name?
- Hyacinth is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hyacinth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Hyacinth in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hyacinth.
- Where is Hyacinth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hyacinth is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hyacinth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,816 people named Hyacinth in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyacinth compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Hyacinth is the 88th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hyacinth” — the 88th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.