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Ignac

Boys' name

Possibly fire, through Ignacy

Ignac has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ignac, 1927

1 in 464,000

Ignac over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ignac: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fire, through Ignacy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ignac means

Ignac belongs to the name family reached through Ignac → Ignacy → Ignātius. Its meaning is “fire”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ignac is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ignacy and Ignātius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ignac is pronounced [ˈiɡ.nat͡s].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Ignac between 1917 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,383 in 1917.

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 Ignac?

Ignac had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927
1 in 464,000
5 of 2,319,281 births
Among boys only
1 in 225,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1927
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
321,522 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ignac 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 1927 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 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ignac. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ignacs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ignac was born before 1920 — so the typical Ignac is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
68.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 68.2% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Ignac 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (7)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,383
1917

Spellings of Ignac

Ignac is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 86.6% against Ignac's <0.01%.

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.

Ignac around the world

Where Ignac 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.

  • South Australia
    1952–1952
    #345
    in 1952

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ignac by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,383
1917
Peak year
1917
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ignac

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

IgnacyIgnasioIgnaceIgnatuisIgnatzIgnazioIgnatiusIgnacio

Sibling names for Ignac

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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