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Igor

#6,946 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly warrior, through Yngvarr

Igor has been given to 804 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #6,946 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Igor, 2025

1 in 276,000

Igor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Igor: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly warrior, through Yngvarr

Russian and Old Norse

What Igor means

Igor belongs to the name family reached through Igor → Yngvarr. Its meaning is “warrior”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliterated from Russian И́горь (Ígorʹ), a Varangian name derived from Old Norse Yngvarr, Ingvarr, from Yngvi (name of a god) + herr (“army”). Doublet of Ivor, Ihar, and Ihor.

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Origin, language, and formation

Igor is used in English, Czech, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Slovak. Its origins include Russian and Old Norse.

Igor comes through Russian И́горь and Old Norse Yngvarr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivor, Ihar, Ihor and Yngvarr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Igor is pronounced /ˈiːɡɔːɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 804 boys were recorded with the name Igor between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,451 in 1953.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,720 in 2020 to #6,946 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,598 in 2015 to #6,946 in 2025.

How common is Igor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,946
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Igor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Igor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Igors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Igor was born before 2004 — so the typical Igor is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
804
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (234).

Is Igor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+488
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+774
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,348
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1998 (30)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,451
1953

Spellings of Igor

Igor is not the most common spelling — Iker is, with 37.2% against Igor's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Igor is used

Across 1910–2025, Igor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 636,198 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Igor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Igor around the world

Where Igor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2018
    #365
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,773
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #451
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,792
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Igor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,946
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 774
Best rank ever
#2,451
1953
Peak year
1998
30 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
804
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Igor

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Sibling names for Igor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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