Ignácz, Ignác, Fuszkó, Kiss, Matil és Mások. (and others)

Family name history

The Hungarian family name Ignácz is classified as being of a personal name origin. According to scholars the widest and most pervasive type of surname is that derived from a given name. Such family names may be derived from a parental first name or from the first name the grandfather, or a more remote ancestor to the original bearer of the surname. With regard to the family name, Ignácz, we have derivation of the old Etruscan name “Egnatius” (Fire), in abbreviated form here referring to the “son of the or the descendant of Ignatius”. This form was worn by the Bishop of Antioch, St. Ignatius who was martyred in Rome under Trajan.

The modern-day popularity of the name stems from the St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit society.

Variants of the surname Ignatz may reduce include Ignacz, Natz and Hnat and many others and can also be found in altered forms in other European countries.

One of the earliest references to his name or to the variant is a record of one of György Ignácz, son of György Ignácz upon his Christening in 1769 in Halmaj, Hungary, however research is of course ongoing as this name may be documented even earlier than the date indicated above. The marriage of Barbara Ignatz to Mathias Csato it was registered in Detk in 1821, and that of another Barbara Ignatz to to Joannis Kiss in Detk in 1825, while yet another Barbara Ignatz was married to Josephus Herrog in 1830.