Ygor

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 2 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 recorded senses●

Ygor 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 kw, open

  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●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 8 years between 1960–2022. 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 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ygor?

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

In which country does Ygor have the most bearers?

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

How common is Ygor compared with other names?

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

Is Ygor a male or female name?

Ygor 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.