# Ignacy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ignacy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 467, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | 12,967 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,572 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,370 |
| 2015 | 36 | 856 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 39 | 818 |
| 2018 | 38 | 821 |
| 2019 | 44 | 740 |
| 2020 | 45 | 723 |
| 2021 | 44 | 761 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,011 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,124 |

## People named Ignacy

- Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin (1856–1881)
- Ignacy Tokarczuk, Catholic archbishop (1918–2012)
- Ignacy Jakub Massalski, Catholic bishop
- Ignacy Hołowiński, catholic archbishop; Polish writer and translator (1807–1855)
- Ignacy Pawłowski, archbishop
- Ignatius Aphrem II, 123rd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch
- Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Catholic cardinal (1879–1968)
- Ignatius Afram I Barsoum, 120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1887–1957)
- Robert Gliński, film director

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.