Ignacio
About 19,969 American babies have been named Ignacio since 1886, most of them around 2006. In 2025 it ranked 829th. About 16,000 Ignacios are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ignacio boys named Ignacio
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,969
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 702nd
- Rank in 2025
- 829th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 22 / 19,947
How old the living Ignacios are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,969 babies given the name since 1886, about 16,000 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 4,100 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ignacios
- Ignacio Zoco (1939–2015)Spanish footballer
- Ignacio Camacho (born 1990)Spanish footballer
- Ignacio María González (born 1982)Uruguayan footballer
- Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893)Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician
- Ignacio Zaragoza (1829–1862)Mexican political and military leader
- Ignacio Allende (1769–1811)Mexican general
- Ignacio Comonfort (1812–1863)President of Mexico
- Ignacio Eizaguirre (1920–2013)Spanish football player and manager
People named Ignacio with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ignacio is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ignacio is most concentrated in New Mexico (6.6×), Arizona (4.9×), Texas (4.3×), California (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Ignacio peaked:
Ignacio elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Ignacio | 17,006 | 45th |
| France boys | Ignacio | 310 | 2,776th |
| England and Wales boys | Ignacio | 97 | 2,493rd |
| Switzerland boys | Ignacio | 31 | 892nd |
| Poland boys | Ignacio | 29 birth registrations | 442nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ignacio: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ignacio | 18 | 0.001% | 763rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ignacio | 13 | 0.003% | 604th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ignacio: rank by region
In 2021, Ignacio was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podkarpackie | Ignacio | 152 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ignacio among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ignacio | 8 | 36 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ignacio lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 88,252 men called Ignacio were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Ignacio | 2,885 | 8.050 | 21 |
| Navarra | Ignacio | 2,534 | 7.479 | 20 |
| Bizkaia | Ignacio | 3,890 | 6.886 | 28 |
| Madrid | Ignacio | 22,289 | 6.541 | 34 |
| Asturias | Ignacio | 3,038 | 6.270 | 36 |
| Zaragoza | Ignacio | 2,511 | 5.122 | 42 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ignacio against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.