Jacinta Balbela (September 29, 1919 – October 26, 2007) was an Uruguayan judge. Born in Salto, she obtained her degree as a lawyer in 1945, and in 1952 she was appointed as a judge. She served in many towns of the country, and later as a criminal judge in Montevideo.
Jacinta Parejo de Crespo (better known as Misia Jacinta) (August 16, 1845–April 16, 1914) was a Venezuelan public figure and the First Lady of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and from 1892 to 1898 during the presidential terms of Joaquín Crespo. Parejo was the first woman in Venezuela to intercede in official policy in a very involved fashion. She held government meetings, worked on projects of the head of state, and at times interceded on the behalf of political prisoners.
I mean, it sounds nice in English but at least in Portugal it's not very well-liked (not saying everyone hates it, but most people I met don't really like it)
I love the hyacinth flower, but using Hyacinth as a name just sounds ugly to me. Jacinta, however, sounds beautiful. It's also spelled beautifully. I feel like this would be a fun name to sign papers with, mostly because of the loopy J at the beginning.
Jacinta Marto was one of the children who reported witnessing three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1917, in Fátima, Portugal (along with her brother Francisco Marto and cousin Lúcia Santos).On May 13, 2000, Jacinta and Francisco were beatified and declared "blessed" in a decree from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Jacinta is the youngest non-martyred child ever to be beatified.
Commonly pronounced jə-SIN-tə in English-speaking countries. It has been frequently in the Top 100 names for girls (with this pronunciation) in Australia over the past 30 years.