Ignacia vs Ignatius

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ignacia Ignatius

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Ignatius for 131 years and Ignacia for 9 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1885–1985 Ignatius ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1986–1988 Ignacia ahead
• 1989–2025 Ignatius ahead, apart from one short spell

6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ignacias alive today are over 64; half the Ignatiuses are over 12. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ignacia Texas (11.9×), California (0.7×)
• Ignatius New York (4.8×), Pennsylvania (3.2×), Illinois (2.2×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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