Igor is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Igor in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Igor in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Igor by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Igor ranks at #4,767. That means there are 4,766 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Igor.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Igor. Boys named Igor have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,012 Igor ranked higher than ever in 1953. By comparison, there have been 86 years in which the first name Igor has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1990. In general, parents name their sons Igor only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Igor was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Igor continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Igor that year, ranking #7,630 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Igor, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Igor. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 85 Americans who bear this name. And these 85 men and boys named Igor live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Igor lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Igor and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Igor relative to its male population is Massachusetts. And even there, only one male in 195,291 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Igor.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Igor is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Igor and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Igor, you can simply say:
Igloo
Goat
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Igor
Igor
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
G
O
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
G
O
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Igor sounds like this:
