Ignacio

What Ignacio means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ignacio yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #925 in 2015 to #829 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ignacio?

US: Rising: up from #925 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3908 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 303 boys got the name (#824 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 5,732 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.08 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.66 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.62 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ignacio is #829 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ignacio were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ignazio6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ignacio

Boys

• Rafael#218Variant of Raphael, meaning “God cures/has healed”^*
• Andres#200Spanish form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Thomas#34“twin”^*
• Peter#187“stone, rock”^*
• Javier#274Spanish, from Basque Xabier, meaning “the new house”^*
• Ismael#263Form of Ishmael, meaning “God hears, God will hear”^*

For a sister

• Kiara#229Variant of Keira, meaning “black, dark, little dark one”^*
• Celeste#188“heavenly”^*
• Daisy#75From the word “daisy”^*
• Diana#244“goddess”^*
• Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
• Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ignacio’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.