This article is about the given name. For the cyclone, see
Cyclone Inigo.
Inigo is a masculine given name deriving from the Castilian rendering (Íñigo) of the medieval Basque name Eneko.[1] Ultimately, the name means "my little (man)".[2] While mostly seen among the Iberian diaspora, it also gained a limited popularity in the United Kingdom.
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Gender | Male |
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Word/name | Basque |
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Derived | Basque Eneko, ene- "mine", -ko (hypocoristic) "my little (love/dear)" |
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Related names | Eneko, Iñaki, Ignatius, Yñigo |
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Early traces of the name Eneko go back to Roman times, when the Bronze of Ascoli included the name forms Enneges and Ennegenses among a list of Iberian horsemen granted Roman citizenship in 89 B.C.E.[3] In the early Middle Ages, the name appears in Latin, as Enneco, and Arabic, as Wannaqo (ونقه) in reports of Íñigo Arista (c. 790–851 or 852), a Basque who ruled Pamplona. It can be compared with its feminine form, Oneca. It was frequently represented in medieval documents as Ignatius (Spanish "Ignacio"),[citation needed] which is thought to be etymologically distinct, coming from the Roman name Egnatius, from Latin ignotus, meaning "unknowing",[4] or from the Latin word for fire, ignis. The familiar Ignatius may simply have served as a convenient substitution when representing the unfamiliar Íñigo/Eneko in scribal Latin.
Athletes
- Iñigo Calderón (born 1982), Spanish Basque footballer who played at Brighton and Hove Albion
- Iñigo Córdoba (born 1997), Spanish Basque footballer
- Íñigo Cuesta (born 1969), Spanish Basque cyclist
- Iñigo Díaz de Cerio (born 1984), Spanish Basque footballer, currently playing for CD Mirandés
- Íñigo Eguaras (born 1992), Spanish Navarrese footballer
- Iñigo Idiakez (born 1973), Spanish Basque footballer who played for Real Sociedad
- Iñigo Martínez (born 1991), Spanish Basque footballer who played for Athletic Bilbao
- Iñigo Monreal (born 1974), Spanish Basque athlete
- Iñigo Landaluze (born 1977), Spanish Basque cyclist
- Iñigo Larrainzar (born 1971), Spanish Basque footballer
- Iñigo Pérez (born 1987), Spanish Navarrese footballer, currently playing for Athletic Bilbao
- Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta (born 1993), Spanish Basque footballer, currently playing for Athletic Bilbao
- Iñigo Vélez (born 1982), Spanish Basque footballer, currently playing for Xerez CD
Other
- Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana (1398–1458), Castilian poet
- Inigo Campioni (1878–1944), Italian admiral
- Inigo Gallo (1932–2000), Swiss comedian and actor
- Inigo Jackson (1933–2001), British actor
- Inigo Jones (1573–1652), British architect
- Inigo Owen Jones (1872–1954), British meteorologist
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (born 1961), American artist and MacArthur Fellow
- Inigo Philbrick (born 1987/1988), American art dealer and convicted fraudster
- Inigo Triggs (1876–1923), British garden designer and author
Ángel Martín Duque, "Del espejo ajeno a la memoria propia", in Signos de identidad histórica para Navarra (Pamplona, 1996), vol. 1, pp. 21-50.