Given name & surname · also Slavic
Ignat
Ignat is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Romanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ignat comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Romanian usage, Ignat developed from Ἰγνάτιος.
Ignat’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Ignat developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰγνάτιος. In English usage, Ignat has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Игнат. In Bulgarian usage, Ignat is a transliteration of Игнат.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ignat has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Ignat comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ignat
- Ignat Golovatsiukspeed skater from Belarusborn 1997
- Ignat ZemchenkoUkrainian ice hockey playerborn 1992
- Ignat BednarikRomanian artist (1882-1963)
- Ihnat BujnickiBelarusian actor and theatre director (1861–1917)
- Ignat SolzhenitsynAmerican conductorborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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