Igor

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Igor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Hero; also Russian variation of the name George.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 241(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 397
  • BRBrazil1 in 777

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Igor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300,000 named Игорь, est.

#59 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
328 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 85 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ИгорьCyrillic(measured from records)
IhorLatin(measured from records)
ԻգորArmenian(measured from records)
იგორGeorgian(measured from records)
ΙγκορGreek(measured from records)
이고르Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Игорь in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Ігор in UA Ukraine and Igor' in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Hero; also Russian variation of the name George

Sources 1

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Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Igor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Igor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#29≈1,300,000 est.≈1 in 110#18Игорь268
UA Ukraine#28≈470,000 est.≈1 in 93listedІгор157
BR Brazil#184272,3201 in 777272KIgor232
PL Poland#18196,3401 in 39796KIgor185
BY Belarus#30≈57,000 est.≈1 in 166—Игорь80
MD Moldova#7939,7081 in 8540KIgor'55
RS Serbia#46≈29,000 est.≈1 in 241listedIgor88

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Igor is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Igor', Ìgor, Igor’, Îgor, Ígor

  • Estonian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Estonia, Hungary

    Languages: Estonian, Hungarian, Finnish

    Also written Igor', Ígor, Igõr, Igör, Igór

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Italy

    Also written Igõr, Ígor

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Ìgor', Igor', Igoŕ, Ígor, Igor’

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra

    Also written Ígor

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Igor'

  • Russian given name113 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English

    Also written Егор, Єгор, Egor, Yehor, Yegor

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Igor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Slavic name, possibly from Old Norse Ingvarr.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Swedish, Igor är en rysk form av → Ingvar. En känd namnbärare är kompositören Igor Stravinskij (1882–1971).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, d’origine slave, « gardien de la jeunesse ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Slave oriental, probablement issu du norrois Ingvarr.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, from Germanic Ing- + *war- element

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Igor of Kiev, b. 878Igor Stravinsky, b. 1882Igor Sikorsky, b. 1889Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, b. 1895Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov, b. 1903Igor Smirnov, b. 1941Igor Matovič, b. 1973Igor Semshov, b. 1978Igor Denisov, b. 1984Igor Akinfeev, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 100 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Igor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022272K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—271K#114
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—267K#192
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202696K#64
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—95K#64
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—40K#22
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20207.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#114
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20251.5K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#9,921
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266#9,922

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Igor mean, and where does it come from?
Hero; also Russian variation of the name George Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
In which country does Igor have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Игорь in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Igor most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Igor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 85 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Igor?
In Brazil, the national register counted 272,320 people named Igor in 2022, about 1 in 777 residents.
How common is Igor compared with other names?
In Russia, Igor is the 29th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
Is Igor a male or female name?
Igor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Igor?
In the etymology graph, Ihor, Ivor and Ingvar are forms of the same name in other languages.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Igor” — the 29th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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