Hyacinth (given name) explained

Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe. The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple.^[1]

English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia. European equivalents include Hyacinthe (French), Hyazinth (German),^[2] Jacek (Polish, male), Iakinf (Иакинф; Russian). The Spanish name Jacinta is closely related, referring to the hyacinth flower. Jacinda (Greek and Spanish) may refer to either.^[3]

Hyacinth may also refer to:

Men with the given name Hyacinth

• Hyacinth and Protus (martyred 257–9), Christian saints
• Hyacinth Bobone (c.1106–1198), after 1191 Pope Celestine III
• Hyacinth (Bichurin) (1777–1853), one of the founding fathers of Sinology
• Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo (born 1955), vicar and bishop
• Hyacinth Gabriel Connon (1911–1978), Lasallian Brother and a president of De La Salle University
• Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz (1893–1968), German Army officer
• Hyacinth Morgan (1885–1956), Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
• Hyacinth of Caesarea (died 108), early Christian martyr saint
• Hyacinth Tungutalum (1946–2009), Australian politician
• Saint Hyacinth (1185–1257), Polish priest, canonized 1594
• Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot (1834–1904), Irish lawyer
• Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de Bougainville (1781-1846) French naval officer, son of Louis de Bougainville

Mythology

• Hyacinth (mythology), divine hero in Greek mythology

Fiction

• Hyacinth Robinson, the main character of Henry James' 1886 novel The Princess Casamassima

Women with the given name Hyacinth

• Hyacinth Flemmings, former cricketer
• Hyacinth Mariscotti (also written Hyacintha or Giacinta), Italian saint
• Hyacinth Walters (born 1926), Jamaican former sprinter
• Hyacinth Wijeratne (1946-2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala actress

Fiction

• Hyacinth Bucket, main character in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances
• Hyacinth Hippo, a character from the Disney movie Fantasia (1940 film)
• Hyacinth Bridgerton, character in the Netflix series Bridgerton

See also

• Hyacinth (disambiguation)
• Hyacinthe
• Jacek
• Jacinta
• St. Hyacinth (disambiguation)

People with the surname Hyacinth

• Flora Hyacinth (born 1966), retired female track and field athlete from the United States Virgin Islands

Notes and References

1. Thomas W. Sheehan, . Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001. Page 130.
2. Sheehan, page 131.
3. Sheehan, . Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001. "Jacinta: 'The Hyacinth Flower' (Spanish) or 'The Wearer of Purple' (Portuguese) or 'The Beautiful One' (Spanish). Jacinda: (Greek, Spanish) see Hyacinth, Jacinta."