Jacinta
Gender | Feminine |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Spanish, Greek |
Meaning | Hyacinth |
Other names | |
Related names | Giacinta, Hyacintha, Jacinto, Jacinda, , Jacintha, |
The given name Jacinta is the feminine form of old European masculine name known across the West as
- Jácint in Hungarian language
- Jacenty in Polish
- Jacinto in Spanish and Portuguese.
Variants include the most close to its origin in early Ancient Greece old form Hyacinth, as well as Hyacintha, Jacinda, Jacintha, Jesinta and Jaxine and also the Italian form Giacinta and present in Ibero-America and Spain form Jacinda
As an English name, the name is mostly used in the New Zealand and Australia.
People[]
Jacinda
- Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Jacinda Barrett, Australian actress
Jacinta
- Jacinta Allan, Australian politician
- Jacinta Coleman (1974–2017), New Zealand road cyclist
- Jacinta John, Australian actress, producer and director
- Jacinta Monroe (born 1988), American professional women's basketball player
- Jacinta Stapleton, Australian actress
- Jacinta Brondgeest, Australian dance-pop singer
- Jacinta Marto, one of three Portuguese shepherd children who claimed to witness the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima
- Jacinta Tynan (born 1969), Australian news presenter and journalist
- Jacinta Ruru New Zealand Maori professor of law.
Giacinta
- Giacinta Marescotti, Italian saint
- Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, fictional James Bond character
Other[]
- Giacinta ed Ernesto, an opera by Julius Benedict
- Giacinta, a novel by Luigi Capuana
- Jacinta, an oil well drilled by Desire Petroleum in the southern part of the North Falkland Basin[1]
- Jacinta (FD159), a stern-fishing trawler ship launched in 1972
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Financial Times 30 December 2010
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