Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Ihor isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ihor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 164
- 164 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1953
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1967. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,369 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ihor’s family of names
In English usage, Ihor shares an earlier linguistic root with Igor.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ihor
- Igor of Kievprince of Kiev (877–945)878–945
- Igor BelanovUkrainian footballerborn 1960
- Ihor KostenkoUkrainian journalist and activist1991–2014
- Ihor KolomoyskyiIsraeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politicianborn 1963
- Ihor PavlyukUkrainian writerborn 1967
- Ihor KlymenkoUkrainian police officer, acting Minister for the Interiorborn 1972
- Ihor KobrynSoviet and Ukrainian film director1951–2023
- Ihor ReizlinUkrainian fencerborn 1984
- Ihor TurchynUkrainian soviet sports coach (1936-1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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