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Borrowed from Mexican Spanishnachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio(“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943.[1]
^ Adriana P. Orr (1999 July) “Nachos, anyone?”, in Oxford English Dictionary, archived from the original on 2006-02-15:
And to add to the satisfaction, we have recently[…] been able to verify a quotation from that elusive 1954 St Anne's Cookbook which confirms the existence of Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Anaya, gives the Victory Club as the place in which he invented his ‘nacho specials’, and provides his own original recipe.
