Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Polish usage, Iga is a diminutive of Jadwiga.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Iga through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,797 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,797 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 145 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Iga’s family of names
In Polish usage, Iga is a diminutive of Jadwiga. In Polish usage, Iga has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Ига.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Iga
- Iga ŚwiątekPolish tennis player (born 2001)
- Iga Baumgart-WitanPolish Olympic sprinterborn 1989
- Iga WyrwałPolish actress and former glamour modelborn 1989
- Iga CembrzyńskaPolish actress1939–2026
- Iga WojtasikPolish speed skaterborn 2000
- Iga WasilewskaPolish female volleyball playerborn 1994
- Iga MayrPolish actress (1921–2001)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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