Hipólito

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Boy · Greek

Hipólito

Say it: ee-POH-lee-toh

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Meaning

From Greek Hippolytos, from hippos 'horse' and lyein 'to loose'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1900s

In the United States

1,899 babies given this name since 1904
At its height in 1904, about 1 in 21,400 boys
Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Argentine Spanish

The family of the name

Portuguese	Hipólito
Italian	Ippolito

Famous bearers

Hipólito Yrigoyen, president of Argentina

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Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
Parish baptism registers
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.