Aigar
given name · Estonian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aigar is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: First recorded in early 20th century. Cognate with Latvian Aigars. Uncertain origin. Julius Mägiste (1936) suggests Finnish origin, but the name is unknown in Finland.
- ISIceland1 in 175K◐
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7 ●
- Sources
- 2 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 3 countries
0 records
Derived
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
First recorded in early 20th century. Cognate with Latvian Aigars. Uncertain origin. Julius Mägiste (1936) suggests Finnish origin, but the name is unknown in Finland. Compare however dialectal Karelian aiga (“time”); the corresponding Northern Sami word is an element in ancient personal names such as Áigesárri.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Estonian85061%
- Finnish18213%
- 1178%
- English594%
- Hindi463%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian | 850 | 61% |
| Finnish | 182 | 13% |
| 117 | 8% | |
| English | 59 | 4% |
| Hindi | 46 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aigar 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 sco, grain well dried in a pot, to be ground in a quern or hand-mill.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Aigar Vahemetsab. 1936EEEstonian historian, sociologist and writer (1936-2007)
- Aigar Tõnusb. 1970EEEstonian badminton coach and badminton player (born 1970)
- Aigar Põderb. 1970EEEstonian politician (born 1970)
- Aigar Vaigub. 1984EEEstonian physicist and science propagator (born 1984)
- Aigar Niglasb. 1985EEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0679-6746
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●
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 450 | #309 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 166 | #3,850 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #33,195 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #177,502 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #53,362 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | #9,650 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #30,501 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aigar?
- We estimate roughly 7 people bear Aigar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aigar have the most bearers?
- Aigar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled aigar.
- Where is Aigar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aigar is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- Is Aigar a male or female name?
- Aigar 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 does the name Aigar mean?
- Recorded meaning: First recorded in early 20th century. Cognate with Latvian Aigars. Uncertain origin. Julius Mägiste (1936) suggests Finnish origin, but the name is unknown in Finland.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aigar”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.