Entry № 4740 · English origin

Jacinda Jacinda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ juh-SIN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Hyacinth (PM Jacinda Ardern)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "hyacinth (pm jacinda ardern)".

Jacinda is a variant of Hyacintha — from the Greek flower name. Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) served as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2023) — the world's youngest female head of government at the time of taking office. The second elected world leader to give birth in office (after Benazir Bhutto). Her response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings — banning military-style semi-automatic weapons within weeks — became a global model of decisive crisis leadership.

Subject of multiple biographies including Jacinda Ardern: The Story Behind an Extraordinary Leader (2019).

Hyacinth. World's youngest female head of government when she took office; banned semi-automatics after Christchurch.

The name in its native script.

Jacinda
Transliteration
Jacinda
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈsɪn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jacinda stands.

Jacinda 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.

Jacindas before her.

Real people
Jacinda Ardern
40th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
born 1980
In fiction
Jacinda
Modern New Zealand political history.

Names connected to Jacinda.

The number behind Jacinda.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jacinda reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.