Cinco

Ultimately from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish Cinco, an alternative form of Sinco/Singco, which are historically transcriptions following Spanish orthography of a Hokkien name with honorific used as surnames since the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.

Cinco (plural Cincos)

1. A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

• NCOIC, conic

• Sinco
• Singco

Ultimately from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish Cinco, which is historically a transcription following Spanish orthography of a Hokkien name with the 哥 (ko) honorific appended at the end of one of the given name syllables of the family's original patriarch used as a surname since the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋko/ [ˈsiŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -iŋko
• Syllabification: Cin‧co
• Homophone: singko

Cinco (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜅ᜔ᜃᜓ)

1. a surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cinco is the 14,964^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 37,223 individuals.