Ihor

Spellings & scripts●

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• a separate given name2.0K records spelled Ihor2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia, Canada

  Also written Ìhor

36 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●

Ihor 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 English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name І́гор (Íhor).

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 17 years between 1950–1967. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Igor of Kievb. 878UAnot in their usual nameprince of Kiev (877–945)
• Ihor Surkisb. 1958UAUkrainian football executive
• Igor Belanovb. 1960UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
• Ihor Kolomoyskyib. 1963UAIsraeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politician
• Igor Plotnitskyb. 1964UAnot in their usual namethe Head of the unrecognised Luhansk People's Republic, in eastern Ukraine
• Ihor Pavlyukb. 1967UAUkrainian writer
• Ihor Kolykhaievb. 1971UAUkrainian politician, mayor of Kherson, Ukraine
• Igor Olshanskyb. 1982USnot in their usual nameUkrainian gridiron football player (born 1982)
• Ihor Reyzlinb. 1984UAUkrainian fencer
• Ihor Kostenkob. 1991UAUkrainian journalist and 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 124 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ihor?

We estimate roughly 502 thousand people bear Ihor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Ihor have the most bearers?

Ihor is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled игорь.

How common is Ihor compared with other names?

In Russia, Ihor is the 30th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Ihor a male or female name?

Ihor 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.