Ignacio

Ignacio is a male Spanish and Galician name originating the Latin name "Ignatius" from ignis "fire". This was the name of several saints, including the third bishop of Antioch (who was thrown to wild beasts by emperor Trajan) and Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Variants include the archaic Iñacio, the Italian Ignazio, the German Ignatz, the Catalan Ignasi, the Basque Iñaki, Iñigo, Eneko, and the diminutives Nacho/Natxo, Iggy, and Iggie. Ignacio can refer to: People Ignacio Chávez (disambiguation) Ignacio González (disambiguation) Ignacio López (disambiguation) Arts and entertainment Ignacio Aldecoa, 20th-century Spanish author Ignacio Berroa, 20th-21st-century Cuban jazz drummer Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh, 19th-20th-century Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer Ignacio Figueredo, 20th-century Venezuelan folk musician Ignacio Merino, 19th-century Peruvian painter Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez, 19th-20th-century black Cuban musician and composer Ignacio Serricchio, 21st-century Argentinian-American actor Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta, 19th-20th-century Spanish painter