Ignazio
Ignazio was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,173 among boys’ names; 600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ignazio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ignazio mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Ignazio is “a male given name, equivalent to English Ignatius”
From Latin Ignātius.
/iɲˈɲat.t͡sjo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ignazio?
#11,173 among boys’ names, 2025
Ignazio fell from #9,052 in 2015 to #11,173 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 3.5 per million.
37 babies in 1917, the peak
Ignazio peaked in 1917, when 37 boys were given it, #1,100 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,173 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,009 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,942 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,274 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,302 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,282 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,238 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,052 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,255 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,068 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #8,896 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,414 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,720 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,761 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,308 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,234 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,839 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,518 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,868 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,410 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,621 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,009 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,216 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,092 | 4.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,825 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,793 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,281 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,278 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,332 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,577 | 8.4 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,470 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,853 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,045 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,756 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,681 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,963 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,006 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,671 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,756 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,903 | 16.1 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,001 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,525 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,451 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,863 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,790 | 18.8 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,724 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,325 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,100 | 40.0 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,665 | 21.3 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,530 | 24.7 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,319 | 32.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,171 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,117 | 41.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,463 | 31.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ignazio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ignazio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ignazio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ignazio, and how old are they?
An estimated 157 Americans named Ignazio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 10 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 603 people named Ignazio (4 women and girls, 599 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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).
Where are babies named Ignazio born?
The states with the most babies named Ignazio are New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts and New Jersey are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 268 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Ignazio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ignazio is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 4.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ignazio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ignazio
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 Ignazio and names like it
- Compare Ignazio and MasaoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sIgnazio peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ignazio since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Ignazio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Ignazio.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ignazio alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with IMost given first.