Ignacio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a Latinized form of the personal name Inigo, which is of pre-Roman origin (recorded in classical times as Enneco)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɡnaθjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ignacio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 271(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 421
- ARArgentina≈1 in 462
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #465 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 449 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 271 (inferred from the name graph)
≈99,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Latinized form of the personal name Inigo, which is of pre-Roman origin (recorded in classical times as Enneco). As a personal name it was not common in the Middle Ages; its comparative popularity in Catholic countries today is due to the fame of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Inigo Yanez de Onaz y Loyola, 1491-1556), founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ignacio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #77 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | 2.6K | Ignacio | 193 |
| ES Spain | #54 | 88,252 | 1 in 567 | 89K | Ignacio | 285 |
| CL Chile | #18 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | 582 | Ignacio | 191 |
| CN China | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Ignacio | 30 |
| US United States | — | 35,092 | 1 in 9.5K | 35K | Ignacio | 449 |
| PY Paraguay | #76 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 654 | — | Ignacio | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | #17 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 421 | — | Ignacio | 120 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ignacio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Ignatius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Del latín Ignatius, alteración de Egnatius; no procede de ignis ‘fuego’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, notably borne by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miguel Hidalgo Y Costillab. 1753MXnot in their usual nameCatholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
- Ignacio Zaragozab. 1829MXMexican political and military leader (1829–1862)
- Ignacio López Tarsob. 1925MXMexican actor and politician (1925–2023)
- Ignacio Zocob. 1939ESSpanish footballer (1939–2015)
- Nacho Vidalb. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish pornographic actor
- Nacho Vigalondob. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish filmmaker
- Nacho Novob. 1979ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Ignacio Serricchiob. 1982ARArgentine–American actor
- Nacho Monrealb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Nachob. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
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 85 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 89K | #53 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 88K | #110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35K | #1,143 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.6K | #51 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.5K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 1.5K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 582 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 298 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #1,143 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Ignacio mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Latinized form of the personal name Inigo, which is of pre-Roman origin (recorded in classical times as Enneco). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Ignacio a male or female name?
- Ignacio is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Ignacio?
- A machine transcription gives /iɡnaθjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Ignacio?
- In the etymology graph, Ignatius, Iñaki and Ignazio are forms of the same name in other languages; Nacho is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Ignacio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 99 thousand people named Ignacio in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ignacio.
- How common is the name Ignacio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 88,252 people named Ignacio, about 1 in 567 residents.
- How common is Ignacio compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ignacio is the 77th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ignacio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ignacioThe 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, “Ignacio” — the 77th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.