Ignacio

Where Ignacio comes from

Ignacio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #758 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1930
    Peak, #501
    142 babies named Ignacio — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1939
    Ignacio Zoco born
    Spanish footballer
  4. 1990
    Ignacio Camacho born
    Spanish footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ignacio Zoco · Spanish footballer, 1939–2015
  • Ignacio Camacho · Spanish footballer, born 1990
  • Ignacio Zaragoza · Mexican political and military leader, 1829–1862
  • Ignacio Manuel Altamirano · Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician, 1834–1893
  • Ignacio Comonfort · President of Mexico, 1812–1863

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.