Ignace
Ignace was last recorded in 1925, when 10 babies were given it; 96 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ignace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ignace mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Ignace is “a male given name, equivalent to English Ignatius”
Ultimately from Latin Ignatius.
/i.ɲas/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ignace?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #2,838, in 1925; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1919, the peak
Ignace peaked in 1919, when 10 boys were given it, #2,773 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 10 | #2,838 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,659 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,301 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,054 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,081 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,345 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,773 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,984 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,384 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,193 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 7 | #3,219 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,780 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,634 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ignace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ignace has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ignace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ignace, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Ignace was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 139 people named Ignace (6 women and girls, 133 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1 born in the U.S. The Census count is 139.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 20,065 babies since 1880, Ignace is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 298 babies recorded by SSA was a Ignace (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ignace
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ignace and names like it
- Compare Ignace and IgnacioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sIgnace peaked in 1919.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ignace since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Ignace: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Ignace.
- Names starting with IMost given first.