Ignacio — #824 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ignacio

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,647 babies named Ignacio between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ignacio currently holds the #824 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 313 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ignacio performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,922 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ignacio shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,598 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Ignacio in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ignacio in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,647 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.