Ignacia vs Ignazio

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ignacia Ignazio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 101 years in which either name was published, Ignacia for 77 years and Ignazio for 24 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.

• 1893–1911 Ignacia ahead
• 1914–1917 Ignazio ahead
• 1918–1973 Ignacia ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1974–1978 Ignazio ahead
• 1979–2005 Ignacia ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2015–2018 Ignazio ahead

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ignacias alive today are over 64; half the Ignazios are over 42. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ignacia Texas (11.9×), California (0.7×)
• Ignazio New York (12.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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