Ignacia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Ardiente, fogosa (25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado)

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024

/iɣnaθja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Ignacia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Chile it is the 98th most common given name.

  • CLChile≈1 in 660(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.6K
  • MXMexico≈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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈45,000 people, est.

Record sources
180 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 663 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Ignacia

  • Spanish:/iɣnaθja/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Ardiente, fogosa

Cited for this meaning 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.

Where Ignacia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#425≈45,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K226Ignacia91
CL Chile#98≈30,000 est.≈1 in 663679Ignacia114
AR Argentina#568≈7,200 est.≈1 in 6.3K33Ignacia51
PE Peru#864≈6,800 est.≈1 in 5K—Ignacia35
PH Philippines—≈4,700 est.≈1 in 24K—Ignacia25
PY Paraguay#177≈4,400 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Ignacia24
US United States—3,1861 in 104K3.1KIgnacia180
BO Bolivia—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Ignacia21
NI Nicaragua#168≈2,300 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Ignacia11

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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ignacia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ignácia, Ígnacia

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ignácia

  • Lao given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written I'Gnacia

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ignacîa, Ignacǐa

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Paraguay, Peru

    Also written Ignácia

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Îgnâcîã, Ignäciä, Ignacîa

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
17501800185019001950Teresa Cabarrús, b. 1773Eugenia de Montijo, b. 1826Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, b. 1936

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)
InformalHola Ignacia,Hi Ignacia, (English)

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)

36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.

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?
In Spanish /iɣnaθja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Ignacia a male or female name?
Ignacia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
What are other forms of the name Ignacia?
In the etymology graph, Ignatia and Ignacja are forms of the same name in other languages.
Which countries have the most people named Ignacia?
Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Ignacia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ignacia. After it come Chile, Argentina, Peru and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
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 Mexico, Ignacia is the 425th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.

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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” — ranked 403rd in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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