Avigdor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Joined with the Latin name Victor
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/ævɪɡdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Avigdor is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 7.5Kas אביגדור(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 777K
- RORomania≈1 in 22Kas אביגדור
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 Avigdor 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 777K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named אביגדור, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אביגדור in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania and 3 more.
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)Joined with the Latin name Victor.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avigdor 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #680 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 715 | אביגדור | 49 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | אביגדור | 2 |
| US United States | — | 428 | 1 in 777K | 425 | אביגדור | 61 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | אביגדור | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | אביגדור | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | אביגדור | 1 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Avigdor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. neuhebräischer Her kunft (neuhebr. ’avigdör »Vater, Beschüt zer«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Avigdor Hameirib. 1890ILIsraeli writer and poet (1890-1970)
- Avigdor Millerb. 1908USAmerican rabbi (1908–2001)
- Avigdor Stematskyb. 1908ILIsraeli artist (1908-1989)
- Avigdor Daganb. 1912CZCzech poet and writer, Israeli diplomat (1912–2006)
- Avigdor Arikhab. 1929ROIsraeli artist (1929-2010)
- Avigdor Ben-Galb. 1936ILIsraeli general (1936–2016)
- Avigdor Kahalanib. 1944ILIsraeli politician
- Avi Maozb. 1956ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Avigdor Libermanb. 1958ILIsraeli politician, member of the Knesset
- Avigdor Eskinb. 1960RUIsraeli activist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Avigdor mean, and where does it come from?
- Joined with the Latin name Victor. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Avigdor?
- A machine transcription gives /ævɪɡdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Avigdor a male or female name?
- Avigdor is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Avigdor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named אביגדור in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Avigdor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Avigdor is densest in the United States — about 1 in 777 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Avigdor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 428 people named Avigdor in 2020, about 1 in 777 thousand residents.
- How common is Avigdor compared with other names?
- In Israel, Avigdor is the 680th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Avigdor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avigdorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Avigdor” — the 680th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.