How rare is the name Igor?

14,180 people in the United States have the first name Igor, about 1 in 21,300. It ranks #1,962 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

IGOR

#1,962

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
14,180
About
1 in 21,300
This common or more
77.9%
Who bears it

Of the 14,180 people named Igor, 93.1% reported their origin as White, 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 1.3% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Igor peaked in 1998, when 30 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19512025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
30
In 2025*
12 ▼60%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 804 babies have been given the name since 1951. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Igor by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #7,413. The largest share of babies named Igor, 44.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#7,41362
1960s#10,11337
1970s#12,90742
1980s#17,75131
1990s#10,316141
2000s#9,028234
2010s#11,117187
2020s#14,67570
Baby boom 1946–649.3%
Generation X 1965–808.2%
Millennials 1981–9613.4%
Generation Z 1997–1244.7%
2013 and later24.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Igor

#1,960 Elvin · 14,198#1,961 Mira · 14,191#1,963 Emory · 14,171#1,964 Shayna · 14,154

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