Ifor
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- EE-vor
- Origin
- Old Norse
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Ifor is a boys' name of Old Norse origin, meaning “bow warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Ifor mean?
Old Norse: Welsh form of Ivor, from Old Norse Ivarr
“bow warrior”
Ifor Hael ('Ifor the Generous') was the 14th-century patron of the great Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym.
Is Ifor a girl's or a boy's name?
Ifor is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ifor in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 56% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Ifor, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Ifor in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 70 boys in the UK were given Ifor or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #553, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
- Ivar 67
- Ifor 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Ifor in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,025 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,086 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #2,714 |
Names like Ifor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Luca, Muhammad, Umar, Musa, Hector, Idris, Victor, Ibrahim, Ezra, Rupert, Amir, Syed
Other spellings of Ifor
More Old Norse names
Freya, Ronnie, Ralph, Eric, Astrid, Colby, Rafe, Odin, Ralphie, Erik, Freyja, Erick, Bo, Ronald, Bjorn, Erica
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ifor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ifor, updated 20 October 2026.