Igors
Just over 100 men in Poland carry this Slavic name, and no boys have been given it in years. It comes from a root meaning "Ing's warrior", tied to the same source as Igor.
Igors Pronunciation
Igors is pronounced EE-gors (/ˈigɔrs/).
What Igors means
Where Igors comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Igors reached Poland through a Slavic line, and behind it stands an older Norse name, Ingvarr. That older name joined two parts: Yngvi, a god the Northmen tied to fertility and peace, and a root meaning guard or warrior. So the short meaning came down as "Ing's warrior."
The name traveled with the Varangians into the Rus. Prince Igor of Kiev, a ruler of the Rurikid line, carried it in the tenth century, and the medieval "Tale of Igor's Campaign" fixed it in Slavic memory. Igor is the everyday Polish form. Igors is the Latvian shape of the same name.
In Poland the imieniny fall on 5 October, the day linked to Saint Igor, that same Kievan prince. A child listed as Igors on a class register sits close to every Igor around him, one added letter apart.
The meaning was never soft. Ing's warrior it began, and Ing's warrior it stays.
How many people are named Igors
1 in 185619 men in Poland is named Igors. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3156 among male names.