Given name & surname
Hipolito
Hipolito is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon.
Original SpanishHipólito
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hipolito through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,924
- 1,924 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,062 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,062 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,754 as a first name in 2020; 2,796 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hipolito’s family of names
Hipolito shares a linguistic root with Hippolyte. In English usage, Hipolito as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Hipólito.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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