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Igor

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Игорь (Igor'), a Russian form of Ingvarr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Igor ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ígor ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

See also Ihor (Ukrainian), Iku

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Igor
Genitive: Igors
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Igor
Genitive: Igorin
Partitive: Igoria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Igor
Genitive: Igors
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Igor
Genitive: Igors

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 97 people were named Igor (percentage of first or only given name: 36 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
1277 1541 0 0 1277 1541
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 2899 0 0
n.a.
 2899
Denmark Denmark[9]
375
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 375
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
69 74
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
600
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 600
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Igor (m) Sources: [7][9][11][8]


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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