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Iggy

#8,496 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly fire, through Ignatius

Iggy has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #8,496 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Iggy, 2025

1 in 368,000

Iggy over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iggy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fire, through Ignatius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iggy means

Iggy belongs to the name family reached through Iggy → Ignatius. Its meaning is “fire”.

Origin, language, and formation

Iggy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ignatius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 78 boys were recorded with the name Iggy between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,055 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,943 in 2020 to #8,496 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Iggy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,496
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iggy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iggy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iggys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iggy was born before 2022 — so the typical Iggy is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
78
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Choose a decade

2020s — 76.9% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Iggy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−524
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,447
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2023 (12)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,055
2023

Spellings of Iggy

Iggy is not the most common spelling — Guy is, with 85.1% against Iggy's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Iggy around the world

Where Iggy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2022
    #6,231
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Iggy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,447
Best rank ever
#7,055
2023
Peak year
2023
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Iggy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ReggyZiggyPeggy

Sibling names for Iggy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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