Male first name (English): Hyacinth, the hyacinth, Ancient Greek (plant) = the hyacinth hyacinth, originally a Greek male name 'hyacinth', according to the same flower, in Greek mythology, Apollo accidentally killed by a Hyakinthos handsome youth female first name (English): Hyacinth, the hyacinth, Ancient Greek (plant) = the hyacinth hyacinth, originally a Greek male name, but since the advent of flowers as female names at the end of the 19th Century in English almost exclusively female