Iegor
A Russian form of George, going back to a Hebrew name for a farmer. It stays rare in Poland: around 140 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Iegor Pronunciation
Iegor is pronounced YE-gor (/ˈjɛgɔr/).
What Iegor means
Where Iegor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iegor is a spelling that travels. It carries into Latin letters the Russian names Egor and Yegor, the everyday forms of the churchly Georgiy. Someone at the urząd writes Iegor on the form where a parish register once had the longer name.
The name it grows from means farmer, the worker of the soil. In Polish that word is rolnik. The meaning points to a person who turns the ground and tends what grows, one of the oldest kinds of work there is.
In Russian tradition the name sits under Saint George, the patron whose day the bearers of Egor and Yegor keep. The saint became a soldier and a dragon-slayer in later stories, yet the name under all of it kept its older sense. A boy called Iegor answers, on paper, to the name of the farmer. The short meaning stays plain: farmer, rolnik in Polish.
How many people are named Iegor
1 in 150325 men in Poland is named Iegor. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2745 among male names.