Given name & surname
Ignac
“a fiery man; one who is ardent”
Ignac is a variant of Ignatius. One Latin interpretation is “a fiery man; one who is ardent.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ignac is a variant of Ignatius. One Latin interpretation is “a fiery man; one who is ardent.” Its derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ignac is a variant of Ignatius. A possible origin is Latin, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ignac is a variant of Ignatius. The history of Ignatius gives this family its wider story. Ignatius’s historical associations include various early saints, and more recently St Ignatius Loyola.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ignac through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1917.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ignac’s family of names
Ignac has a related form in Ignatius. In Slovenian usage, Ignac has a conventional equivalent in the French form Ignace.
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 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ignacioequivalent
- Ignazioequivalent
- Ignacyequivalent
- IgnaceFrench
- Ignjatequivalent
- Ignacoequivalent
- Ignasiequivalent
- Ignacijequivalent
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People named Ignac
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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