Given name
Inácio
Inácio is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinIgnatius
Meaning & origin
Inácio’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Inácio has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Ignacio. In Portuguese usage, Inácio has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Ignatius. In Portuguese usage, Inácio has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Ignazio.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Inácio has relatives in 27 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Inácio comes from · 1 name
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 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Inácio
- PiáBrazilian footballerborn 1982
- Inácio do Nascimento de Morais CardosoCatholic cardinal (1811–1883)
- Inácio SaureMozambican Roman Catholic archbishopborn 1960
- Inácio de AzevedoPortuguese missionary1526–1570
- Alvarenga PeixotoBrazilian poet and lawyer1742–1792
- Inácio Lucas MwitaMozambican Catholic prelate (born 1969)
- Inácio João Dal Monte1897–1963
- InácioBrazilian association football playerborn 1996
- Inácio de São CaetanoPortuguese catholic priest and theologian1718–1788
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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