Ignacy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Ignatius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɡnat͡sɨ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ignacy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 725
- ISIceland1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ignacy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 725 (inferred from the name graph)
52,804 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latin[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek](measured from records)
a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Ignatius
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ignacy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
52,804 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ignacy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ignacy Krasickib. 1735PLPolish writer and poet, Catholic archbishop
- Ignacy Potockib. 1750PLPolish nobleman and politician, co-author of the Constitution of May 3 (1750–1809)
- Ignacy Domeykob. 1802CLPolish-Chilean geologist and educator (1802–1889)
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewskib. 1812PLPolish novelist (1812–1887)
- Ignacy Łukasiewiczb. 1822PLPolish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer (1822-1882)
- Ignacy Jan Paderewskib. 1860UAPolish pianist, composer, supporter of Poland's independence movements, politician, Prime Minister of reborn Poland (1860–1941)
- Ignacy Daszyńskib. 1866UAPolish politician (1866-1936)
- Ignacy Mościckib. 1867PLPresident of Poland from 1926 to 1939
- Stanisław Wyspiańskib. 1869PLnot in their usual namePolish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewiczb. 1885PLPolish artist, dramatist and novelist (1885–1939)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ignacy mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Ignatius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ignacy a male or female name?
- Ignacy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ignacy?
- In the etymology graph, Ignacio, Ignatius and Nacho are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ignacy have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Ignacy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ignacy.
- Where is Ignacy most common?
- Ignacy is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 725 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Ignacy?
- A machine transcription gives /iɡnat͡sɨ/ (IPA) for Polish.
- How common is the name Ignacy?
- In Poland, the national register counted 52,804 people named Ignacy in 2026, about 1 in 725 residents.
What do you want to know about Ignacy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ignacyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ignacy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.