Igor

Igor is a male given name and a variant of the name Ingvar (Scandinavian), which was brought to Rus by the Scandinavian, mainly Swedish Varangians around the 9th century .

The first part of the name comes from the Proto-North Germanic * Ing (w) ia (Ingi-), an epithet of the god Freyr ; the second stem means * Harjaz (warrior) or * Warjaz (defender). So Igor means either Freyr warrior , Freyr defender or holy warriors , and Freyr, rare was the god of sky light, warmth, peace as a fertility god.

Today the name is known from its Russian variant Igor. Among other things, it was spread in the German-speaking area through Borodin's opera " Fürst Igor ". In addition, the name is common in the Balkans .

Igorewitsch (male) and Igorevna are (female) in Russian the patronyms about Igor (or similar forms in other Slavic languages).

Name day is June 18 and September 19.

variants

In Ukrainian the name is pronounced as Ihor and in Belarusian as Ihar . The Lithuanian form of the name is Igoris .

Well-known namesake

Prince Igor († 945), the son of Ryurik, old Russian ruler of the Kievan Rus
Igor Akinfejew (* 1986), Russian football player
Igor Astarloa (* 1976), Spanish cyclist
Igor Sakharovich Bondarewski (1913–1979), Soviet chess player
Igor Wladimirowitsch Glek (* 1961), Russian-German chess player
Igor Gomes (* 1999), Brazilian soccer player
Igor Wassiljewitsch Ivanov (1947-2005), Russian-Canadian chess player
Igor Jeftić (* 1971), German actor
Igor Khenkin (* 1968), Russian-German chess player
Igor Kurganov (* 1988), Russian-German poker player
Igor Dmitrijewitsch Kurnossow (1985-2013), Russian chess player
Igor Ilyich Lyssy (* 1987), Russian chess player
Igor Miladinović (* 1974), Serbian chess player
Igor Dawidowitsch Oistrach (* 1931), Russian violinist
Igor Olshansky (* 1982), American football player of Ukrainian descent
Igor Rausis (* 1961), Czech chess player
Igor Arkadyevich Saizew (* 1938), Russian chess player
Igor Sekić (* 1981), Croatian-Austrian football player
Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorski (1889–1972), Russian aviation pioneer
Igor Alexandrowitsch Smolnikow (* 1988), Russian football player
Igor Spallati (* 1985), Italian jazz musician
Igor Štohl (* 1964), Slovak chess player
Igor Fjodorowitsch Stravinsky (1882–1971), Russian composer
Igor Teplyi (* 1986), Danish chess player
Igor Tudor (* 1978), Croatian football player and coach
Igor Vori (* 1980), Croatian handball player and coach
Igor Julio dos Santos de Paulo (* 1998), Brazilian soccer player, known as Igor

Fictional characters

Igor (also Ygor ) is the hunchbacked helper (invented by the film industry) of Dr. Frankenstein .

Based on Frankenstein's Igor, Terry Pratchett named a species Igor in his Discworld novels that mostly work in the “health system”.

Igor is an American animated film from 2008 in which it is also about the hunchbacked assistants of (crazy) scientists.

Storms

The Hurricane Igor came in September 2010 in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching Category 4 of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale .

Music albums

Igor , is an album by the American rapper Tyler, the Creator, which he released in 2019.

Web links

Frequency, regional distribution, and age cohort distribution of the name Igor in Slovenia

Wiktionary: Igor - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations