Ignatius

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Greenland Greenlandic
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin variant form of Egnatius (altered in the early Christian period by association with Latin ignis = 'fire') [1] [2]

Fire
Fire
Image by MarcusObal,[3]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA


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See also Ignacio (Spanish), Ignacy (Polish), Iñaki (Basque)

For female forms see Ignate

Combinations

For combinations see IGN (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ignatius
Genitive: Ignatius'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ignatius
Genitive: Ignatiuksen
Partitive: Ignatiusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ignatius
Genitive: Ignatius'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ignatius
Genitive: Ignatius' / Ignatius

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 39 people were named Ignatius (percentage of first or only given name: 8 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
94 0 0
n.a.
94
Sweden Sweden[6]
13 52 0 0 13 52
Greenland Greenland[7]
6 36
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[8]
12
n.a.
0
n.a.
12
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ignatius.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Wikimedia Commons: Image by MarcusObal, source & license
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no