Ignatius
11
Babies in 2024
+120%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 12
0%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ignatius
Ignatius is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (11) are up 120% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Ignatius reached its peak in 2020, when 12 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,825 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 20 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 129 boys have been officially registered with the name Ignatius in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 93 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 11 in 2024.