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Ignatz

Boys' name

Form of Ignatius

Ignatz has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1914, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Ignatz, 1928

1 in 283,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ignatz: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ignatius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ignatz means

Ignatz is a form of Ignatius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ignatz is used in German (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪ.ɡnaːt͡s/ for Ignatz.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ignatz → Ignatius. The family’s proposed meaning is “fire”, recorded in English with the source elements ignis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ignatius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 158 boys were recorded with the name Ignatz between 1884 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1914; its best national rank was #909 in 1884.

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 Ignatz?

Ignatz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 283,000
8 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only
1 in 138,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
195,889 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ignatz 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 1928 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 195,889 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ignatz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ignatzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ignatz was born before 1918 — so the typical Ignatz is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
58.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 58.2% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Ignatz 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 1914 (19)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#909
1884

Where Ignatz is used

Across 1910–2025, Ignatz was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 482,746 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ignatz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ignatz 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
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Best rank ever
#909
1884
Peak year
1914
19 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ignatz

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

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Sibling names for Ignatz

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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