Igors

given name · Latvian · Latin script

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

Igors is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 82◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 101
  • RURussia1 in 111

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈502K ●

across 14 countries

#89 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
332 ●

7.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 85 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ИгорьCyrillic · Russian●10M records
IgorLatin · Portuguese●3.7M records
ᲘგორGeorgian · Georgian●3.2K records
ΙγκορGreek · Greek●11 records
이고르Hangul · Korean●7 records
ԻգորArmenian · Armenian●6 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Igor in BR Brazil, PL Poland, HR Croatia and 14 more, Игорь in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Ігор in UA Ukraine and Igor' in MD Moldova.

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

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Igors is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#309,330,8343.4M rec.—#18Игорь228
UA Ukraine#283,830,5563.7M rec.—listedІгор140
BR Brazil#124272,320△55K rec.1 in 777272KIgor224
TR Türkiye#749106,1081.6K rec.——Игорь31
PL Poland#11296,334△11K rec.1 in 39796KIgor175
BY Belarus#2842,15913K rec.—58Игорь71
MD Moldova#36139,708△1.7K rec.1 in 8540KIgor'52
KG Kyrgyzstan#13023,6575K rec.——Игорь29
CN China—18,43986 rec.——Игорь17
CL Chile#48516,6461.8K rec.—1Igor79
HR Croatia#5716,33135K rec.1 in 25916KIgor151
US United States—14,16182K rec.1 in 23K14KIgor332

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

Languages●

  • Latvian20K82%
  • English8123%
  • Polish5732%
  • Norwegian Bokmål4202%
  • Finnish4062%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian20,09282%
English8123%
Polish5732%
Norwegian Bokmål4202%
Finnish4062%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Igors is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name70 records spelled Igors6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Игорс

33 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.

Over time●

020406020102015202059 · 2018

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Igors in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2006–2020
Yearrecords
200612
200715
200818
200926
201026
201131
201234
201338
201441
201540
201647
201748
201859
201959
202056

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Igor Stravinsky, b. 1882Igor Sikorsky, b. 1889Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, b. 1895Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov, b. 1903Igor Smirnov, b. 1941Igor Savochkin, b. 1963Igor Matovič, b. 1973Igor Semshov, b. 1978Igor Denisov, b. 1984Igor Akinfeev, b. 1986
  • Igor Stravinskyb. 1882RUnot in their usual nameRussian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
  • Igor Sikorskyb. 1889USnot in their usual nameAmerican aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
  • Igor Yevgenyevich Tammb. 1895RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1895–1971)
  • Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatovb. 1903RUnot in their usual nameSoviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)
  • Igor Smirnovb. 1941RUnot in their usual namefirst President of Transnistria
  • Igor Savochkinb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor (1963–2021)
  • Igor Matovičb. 1973SKnot in their usual nameSlovak entrepreneur and politician
  • Igor Semshovb. 1978RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
  • Igor Denisovb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
  • Igor Akinfeevb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian association football player

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 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Igors
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—13K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—13K#17
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—420#2,828
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—386#2,374
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026137#1,670
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—115#1,774
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—81#765
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—70#10,889
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201959—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201859—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202056—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—54#26,091

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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Igors?
We estimate roughly 502 thousand people bear Igors (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Igors have the most bearers?
Igors is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled игорь.
How common is Igors compared with other names?
In Russia, Igors is the 30th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Igors a male or female name?
Igors 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 Igors mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Igors” — the 30th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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