# Ingeborg (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ingeborg/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 793 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 793 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 7 | 4,906 |
| 1956 | 12 | 3,564 |
| 1957 | 6 | 5,673 |
| 1958 | 8 | 4,664 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,836 |
| 1960 | 8 | 4,929 |
| 1962 | 7 | 5,505 |
| 1963 | 7 | 5,532 |
| 1964 | 5 | 7,160 |
| 1966 | 13 | 3,631 |
| 1967 | 5 | 7,165 |
| 1968 | 8 | 5,308 |
| 1969 | 5 | 7,893 |
| 1970 | 7 | 6,590 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,516 |

## People named Ingeborg

- Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
- Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Danish and Swedish royal
- Ingeborg, Belgian singer
- Ingeborg Hochmair, Austrian electrical engineer
- Ingeborg of Kyiv, (1100–1137)
- Ingeborg Schöner, actress
- Ingeborg Mello, Argentine shot putter and discus thrower (1919–2009)
- Ingeborg von Kusserow, German film actress (1917–2014)
- Ingeborg Hallstein, German operatic soprano (1936-)
- Ingeborg Tott, de facto Queen Consort of Sweden
- Ingeborg Lüscher, German artist (born 1936)
- Ingeborg Schwenzer, German jurist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.