Avigdor
Masculine · “father of Gedor”
Avigdor means father of Gedor and appears once in Chronicles — but rabbinic tradition reads it as one of the ten names of Moses.
How old is the name Avigdor?
Avigdor first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Avigdor alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 500 people named Avigdor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avigdor most popular?
Avigdor peaked in 2002, reaching #2817 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 1,722 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Avigdor
The midrash lists ten names for Moses drawn from a genealogy in Chronicles that the tradition reads as describing him, and Avigdor is among them — glossed as the one who fenced in the breaches of Israel. Whether the text means that is a question of interpretation; the tradition is old and firmly held. The name is used in Ashkenazi communities and appears in American records from Brooklyn.
Meaning
father of Gedor
From Hebrew avi, my father, and Gedor, a place name built on a root meaning to wall or enclose; the compound appears in a genealogy in Chronicles. The rabbinic identification with Moses is interpretive rather than textual.
Pronouncing Avigdor
ah-VIG-dor
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last.
Nicknames for Avigdor
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 200233 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2817reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- +15.8%22 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Avigdor in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avigdor in Hebrew — same name
- Avigdor in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Avigdors among us
people named Avigdor are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Avigdor
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kort test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avigdor's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kort climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kort's path sketches the road Avigdor is walking now.
Avigdor sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Avigdor beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avigdor in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely interesting interpretive tradition behind it.
- Avi is a complete short form in its own right.
- Immediately recognizable in the community that uses it.
- Seven letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- It is entirely unfamiliar outside Jewish communities in America.
- The connection to Moses is interpretive rather than stated in the text.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avigdors are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Avigdor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avigdor in 2025?
- Avigdor ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avigdor?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Avigdor — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avigdor with classmates?
- Avigdor will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avigdor
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