# Ihor (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ihor/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 164 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 164 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 12 | 2,309 |
| 1953 | 16 | 1,998 |
| 1954 | 13 | 2,252 |
| 1955 | 10 | 2,664 |
| 1956 | 6 | 3,706 |
| 1957 | 16 | 2,051 |
| 1958 | 10 | 2,714 |
| 1959 | 10 | 2,723 |
| 1960 | 7 | 3,481 |
| 1961 | 7 | 3,496 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,306 |
| 1963 | 10 | 2,751 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3,795 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,195 |
| 1967 | 6 | 3,724 |

## People named Ihor

- Ihor Plastun, footballer
- Ihor Vozniak, Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Ihor Kalinin, footballer
- Ihor Tenyukh, Admiral of Ukraine
- Ihor Nichenko, association footballer, association football coach
- Ihor Samunenkov, chess player
- Ihor Bazhan, footballer
- Ihor Korotetskiy, footballer
- Ihor Leonov, footballer
- Ihor Zaytsev, footballer (1934-2016)
- Igor Abakoumov, Belgian road bicycle racer
- Igor Dolgatschew, German actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.