Ignatz

Where Ignatz comes from

Ignatz 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.

Along the way
  1. 1863
    Ignatz Leo Nascher born
    Austrian-American doctor and gerontologist
  2. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #848
    #848 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1927
    Ignatz Bubis born
    president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Ignatz Bubis · president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, 1927–1999
  • Ignatz Leo Nascher · Austrian-American doctor and gerontologist, 1863–1944
  • Ignatz Mühlwenzek · optician, member of the Jesuit order, and professor of mathematics, 1690–1766
  • Ignatz Grunau · 1795–1868

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.