Ignat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: male given name, a counterpart of Ignatius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɡnat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ignat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 12Kas Игнат
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 14Kas Игнат
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 Ignat 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Игнат, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Игнат in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more and Ігнат in UA Ukraine.
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)
male given name, a counterpart of Ignatius
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ignat 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #424 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | #156 | Игнат | 151 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Ignat | 21 |
| UA Ukraine | #458 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Ігнат | 31 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2.1K | Игнат | 34 |
| BY Belarus | #281 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 2 | Игнат | 19 |
| BG Bulgaria | #851 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Игнат | 49 |
| MD Moldova | — | 400 | 1 in 8.4K | 400 | Ignat | 4 |
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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Ignat is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, IGNÁT s. m. (Pop.) Nume dat zilei de 20 decembrie, în care țăranii obișnuiesc să-și taie porcii îngrășați în vederea sărbătorilor de iarnă. ◊ Expr. Nu se îngrașă porcul la ignat = nu se poate face un lucru serios în ultimul moment.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Russian, dim of Ignatii.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Émile Ignatb. 1908FRFrench bicycle racer (1908–1981)
- Dionisie Ignatb. 1909RORomanian Orthodox Christian monk
- Nestor Ignatb. 1918RORomanian academic
- Miron Ignatb. 1941RORomanian politician
- Doina Ignatb. 1968RORomanian rower
- Costi Ignatb. 1975ROAug 13th, 1975 - Oct 30th, 2015, Gender: Male, Real name: Constantin Ignat, Country of origin: Romania , Associated acts: Bolthard, Monarchy
- Florin Ignatb. 1982ROfootballer
- Gheorghe Ignatb. 1983RORomanian wrestler
- Ioana Ignatb. 1998RORomanian singer
- Cristian Ignatb. 2003MDfootballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 400 | #513 |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ignat mean, and where does it come from?
- male given name, a counterpart of Ignatius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ignat?
- In the etymology graph, NaCe, Inácio and Nacio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ignat?
- A machine transcription gives /iɡnat/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Ignat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Игнат in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ignat?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 400 people named Ignat, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ignat compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ignat is the 424th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ignatThe 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, “Ignat” — the 424th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.