But many still name their babies with traditional Christian names and some with indigenous names or sometimes after the names of their parents or ancestors and at times a combination of their names.

Popular boy names philippines. Over the four-year period from 2012 to 2015 the most common names for baby boys in the Philippines were Biblical in origin. Christian a popular baby boy name that means follower of Christ Christopher a popular baby boy name which means carrier of Christ Crisanto a traditional name which means golden flower Crispin curly hair. For each rank and sex the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name.

Two-syllable names are also popular for baby boys. In 2004 while the name Joshua ranked second in the Top Five Most Common Filipino Names Among Males there were 259 33 percent more baby boys or a total 8017 births reported bearing the said name than in 2005. For example Dalisay Abaya and Umali all can be first-name options even though they are Filipino surnames.

The Philippines was a colony of Spain for over 300 years which is why most of our ancestors names have a Hispanic ring to it such as Corazon Caridad or Domingo. Next came the Americans so we also have the usual names like Richard or Jenny but most of our ancestors had Spanish names. Page 1 of Filipino Baby Names - in NEW Database of 10000 baby names boy girl names Traditional Cute Nature names Unique and Rare.

The 200 most popular names were taken from a universe that includes 19614419 male. Extremely good looking lord. The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 1960s.

In addition Filipinos are comfortable using last names as first names. On this site we have listed. They include Daniel Joshua James John and Mark.

The end result is a large variety of names from several different cultures all of which make beautiful boy and girl names. Dakila a unique Filipino baby boy name that means big and great. The rest of the list is sprinkled with classic and up-and-coming names alike all providing ideas for parents hunting for the perfect baby boy name for their newest arrival.