Ignatius
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ignatius is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Name of uncertain origin, popular in Ireland through St Ignatius Loyola; equated with Eigneachan/Igneachan, 'force person'.
- PLPoland1 in 725◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.6K
- BRBrazil1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈95K ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 725 ◐
across 7 countries
139K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Inacio in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, FI Finland and 10 more, Ignacy in PL Poland, NO Norway, AT Austria and 1 more and Inácio in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Name of uncertain origin, popular in Ireland through St Ignatius Loyola; equated with Eigneachan/Igneachan, 'force person'.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #174 | 52,801△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 725 | 53K | Ignacy | 101 |
| BR Brazil | #514 | 34,802 | 75K rec. | 1 in 6.1K | 37K | Inacio | 153 |
| ZA South Africa | #794 | 4,853 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Ignatius | 45 |
| NL Netherlands | #907 | 4,789△ | 259 rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 4.8K | Ignatius | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 3,492 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Ignatius | 66 |
| IN India | — | 3,230 | 2.7K rec. | — | 103 | Ignatius | 69 |
| US United States | — | 2,069 | 32K rec. | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Ignatius | 182 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,907 | 2.2K rec. | — | 3 | Ignatius | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,804 | 2.1K rec. | — | 4 | Ignatius | 83 |
| PT Portugal | #519 | 1,180 | 2K rec. | — | listed | Inacio | 84 |
| PH Philippines | — | 891 | 573 rec. | — | — | Ignatius | 31 |
| AO Angola | #75 | 662 | 927 rec. | — | 2 | Inacio | 28 |
Roughly 53K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 725). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English36K44%
- Indonesian9.2K11%
- Swahili7.4K9%
- Dutch6.7K8%
- Western Frisian5.3K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 36,175 | 44% |
| Indonesian | 9,222 | 11% |
| Swahili | 7,446 | 9% |
| Dutch | 6,702 | 8% |
| Western Frisian | 5,310 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ignatius 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.
From the Latin personal name Ignatius (see Ignacio). This is found as a surname in the Netherlands, Finland, and Estonia, among other places.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A male given name from Latin; of mostly Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox usage in English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from saint's name Ignatz
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1885 | 5 |
| 1886 | 6 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1888 | 7 |
| 1889 | 9 |
| 1890 | 9 |
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1892 | 8 |
| 1893 | 9 |
| 1894 | 9 |
| 1895 | 8 |
| 1896 | 11 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 14 |
| 1899 | 7 |
| 1900 | 11 |
| 1901 | 7 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 9 |
| 1904 | 10 |
| 1905 | 11 |
| 1906 | 18 |
| 1907 | 10 |
| 1908 | 8 |
| 1909 | 14 |
| 1910 | 20 |
| 1911 | 29 |
| 1912 | 43 |
| 1913 | 54 |
| 1914 | 59 |
| 1915 | 81 |
| 1916 | 78 |
| 1917 | 95 |
| 1918 | 88 |
| 1919 | 95 |
| 1920 | 97 |
| 1921 | 90 |
| 1922 | 92 |
| 1923 | 67 |
| 1924 | 90 |
| 1925 | 60 |
| 1926 | 68 |
| 1927 | 56 |
| 1928 | 67 |
| 1929 | 50 |
| 1930 | 71 |
| 1931 | 42 |
| 1932 | 43 |
| 1933 | 35 |
| 1934 | 29 |
| 1935 | 25 |
| 1936 | 25 |
| 1937 | 29 |
| 1938 | 26 |
| 1939 | 19 |
| 1940 | 25 |
| 1941 | 23 |
| 1942 | 44 |
| 1943 | 31 |
| 1944 | 23 |
| 1945 | 16 |
| 1946 | 18 |
| 1947 | 22 |
| 1948 | 22 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 16 |
| 1951 | 18 |
| 1952 | 17 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 19 |
| 1955 | 26 |
| 1956 | 32 |
| 1957 | 20 |
| 1958 | 21 |
| 1959 | 17 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 23 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 21 |
| 1965 | 19 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1967 | 14 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 23 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 33 |
| 2009 | 34 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 52 |
| 2012 | 38 |
| 2013 | 48 |
| 2014 | 41 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 62 |
| 2017 | 70 |
| 2018 | 78 |
| 2019 | 79 |
| 2020 | 80 |
| 2021 | 84 |
| 2022 | 85 |
| 2023 | 89 |
| 2024 | 95 |
| 2025 | 100 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 140 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ignatius of Antiochb. 35ITlate 1st/early 2nd century Christian author and Patriarch of Antioch
- Inigo Jonesb. 1573GBnot in their usual nameEnglish architect and stage designer (1573–1652)
- Ignacio Comonfortb. 1812MXnot in their usual namePresident of Mexico (1812-1863)
- Ignatius Donnellyb. 1831USAmerican politician (1831-1901)
- Arthur Conan Doyleb. 1859GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtensteinb. 1906LInot in their usual namePrince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
- Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtensteinb. 1910ATnot in their usual namePrince of Liechtenstein (1910-1985)
- Ignatius Wolfingtonb. 1920USactor and recipient of the Purple Heart (1920-2004)
- Mor Ignatius Zakka I. Iwasb. 1933SYSyrian-Orthodox Patriarch
- Conrad Sewellb. 1988AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer-songwriter
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 65 sources across 37 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 272 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ignatius?
- We estimate roughly 95 thousand people bear Ignatius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ignatius have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 53 thousand people bear Ignatius in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ignacy.
- Where is Ignatius most common?
- Ignatius is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 725 people carrying it.
- How common is Ignatius compared with other names?
- In Poland, Ignatius is the 174th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Ignatius a male or female name?
- Ignatius 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.
- What does the name Ignatius mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name of uncertain origin, popular in Ireland through St Ignatius Loyola; equated with Eigneachan/Igneachan, 'force person'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ignatius” — the 174th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.