Ignacia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ardiente, fogosa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɣnaθja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ignacia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.8K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ardiente, fogosa
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ignacia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #98 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 679 | Ignacia | 114 |
| AR Argentina | #568 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 33 | Ignacia | 51 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ignacia | 25 |
| PE Peru | #864 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Ignacia | 35 |
| PY Paraguay | #177 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Ignacia | 24 |
| US United States | — | 3,186 | 1 in 104K | 3.1K | Ignacia | 180 |
| NI Nicaragua | #168 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ignacia | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ignacia del Espiritu Santob. 1663PHFilipino religious sister (1663-1748)
- Teresa Cabarrúsb. 1773ESnot in their usual nameSpanish-French courtesans
- Juana de Iturbide y Huarteb. 1812MXnot in their usual namePrincess of Mexico (1812–1828)
- Eugenia de Montijob. 1826ESnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of the French from 1853 to 1870 (1826–1920)
- Ignacia Zeballos Taborgab. 1831BOBolivian nurse heroine
- Edelmira Sampedro y Robatob. 1906CUnot in their usual nameSpanish countess (1906-1994)
- Isidora Aguirreb. 1919CLnot in their usual nameChilean playwright (1919–2011)
- Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajozb. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Royal (1936-2020)
- Loyola de Palaciob. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1950-2006)
- Ignacia Allamandb. 1981CLChilean actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,402 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2013 | 1.6K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2012 | 1.4K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2014 | 1.4K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2011 | 1.4K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2015 | 1.3K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2008 | 1.2K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2010 | 1.2K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1.2K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 1.2K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2007 | 1.1K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2016 | 1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ignacia mean, and where does it come from?
- Ardiente, fogosa Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Ignacia?
- A machine transcription gives /iɣnaθja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ignacia a male or female name?
- Ignacia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ignacia?
- In the etymology graph, Ignatia and Ignacja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ignacia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Ignacia in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ignacia.
- How common is the name Ignacia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,186 people named Ignacia in 2020, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Ignacia compared with other names?
- In Chile, Ignacia is the 98th most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ignacia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ignaciaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ignacia” — the 98th most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.