girls:
22 births since 1926
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
19.3k births since 1886
#832 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.4k births since 1886
#1848 (76th percentile)
The name Ignacio is the #1,848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,366 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 76.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #832 (81.9% percentile) for all time with 19,344 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1926.
Ignacio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1926 for girls). Birth data for Ignacio is available in 133 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ignacio has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ignacio reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 34.3% percentile (ranked #542) with 147 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 148 births per million (ranked 34.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ignacio is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #655 (28.1% percentile) with 144 births per million.
For girls, Ignacio reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #602) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ignacio".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ignacio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.7% confident that Ignacio is pronounced as ihg-NAH-see-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihg-NAH-shee-oh, at 34.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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