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Ignacy

Boys' name

Possibly fire, through Ignātius

Ignacy has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 2012. 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 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ignacy, 2022

1 in 376,000

Ignacy over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ignacy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fire, through Ignātius

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Ignacy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ignacy is used in Polish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Ignacy comes through Latin Ignātius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ignatius and Ignātius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ignacy is pronounced /iɡˈna.t͡sɘ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Ignacy between 2012 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,567 in 2022.

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 Ignacy?

Ignacy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 376,000
9 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 194,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
260,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ignacy 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 2022 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 260,760 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ignacy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ignacys were born

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

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (9).

Is Ignacy 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,567
2022

Spellings of Ignacy

Ignacy is not the most common spelling — Ignacio is, with 99.9% against Ignacy'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.

Ignacy around the world

Where Ignacy 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
    2007–2025
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1930–2022
    #7,212
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ignacy 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
#8,567
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ignacy

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

IgnacIgnasioIgnaceIgnatuisDracyDelacyIgnatzQuacyIgnazioBracyLegacyKacyIgnatiusMacyAcyJacyIgnacioStacyLacyTracy

Sibling names for Ignacy

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

Explore around Ignacy

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