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Nacho

Boys' name

Possibly fire, through Ignacio

Nacho has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1962, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nacho, 1964

1 in 777,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nacho: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fire, through Ignacio

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nacho means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Nacho is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ignacio and Ignātius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Nacho is pronounced /ˈnat͡ʃo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Nacho between 1920 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1962; its best national rank was #2,988 in 1962.

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 Nacho?

Nacho had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 777,000
5 of 3,887,460 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
538,918 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nacho 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 1964 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 538,918 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nacho. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nachos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nacho was born before 1948 — so the typical Nacho is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
24
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Choose a decade

1960s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Nacho 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 1962 (9)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
80.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,988
1962

Spellings of Nacho

Nacho is not the most common spelling — Nash is, with 40.8% against Nacho's 0.10%.

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.

Nacho around the world

Where Nacho 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
    1951–1951
    #321
    in 1951

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

Nacho 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
#2,988
1962
Peak year
1962
9 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nacho

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

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Sibling names for Nacho

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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