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Ihor

Boys' name

Form of Igor

Ihor has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ihor, 1967

1 in 566,000

Ihor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ihor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Igor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ihor means

Ihor is a form of Igor.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ihor is used in Ukrainian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈi.ɦor/ for Ihor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ihor → Igor → Yngvarr. The family’s proposed meaning is “warrior”, recorded in Old Norse with the source elements harjaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Ihor is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Igor and І́гор.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 boys were recorded with the name Ihor between 1950 and 1967. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,970 in 1950.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ihor?

Ihor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1967, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1967
1 in 566,000
6 of 3,394,772 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1967
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
392,181 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ihor 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 1967 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 392,181 children born in 1967 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ihor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ihors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ihor was born before 1956 — so the typical Ihor is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
72.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 72.0% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Ihor 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (16)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,970
1950

Spellings of Ihor

Ihor is not the most common spelling — Iker is, with 31.1% against Ihor's 0.27%.

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 Ihor is used

Across 1910–2025, Ihor was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 749,867 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Ihor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ihor around the world

Where Ihor 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.

  • South Australia
    1950–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ihor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,970
1950
Peak year
1953
16 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1967
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ihor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ihor

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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