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.

Inigo / Iñigo

Íñigo Arista of Pamplona
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Basque
Other names
Derived	Basque Eneko, ene- "mine", -ko (hypocoristic) "my little (love/dear)"
Related names	Eneko, Iñaki, Ignatius, Yñigo

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.