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The first name Ingeborg

A girl’s name.

3 syllables Female

Popularity in the United States

Babies named Ingeborg at birth, 1880–2025

In 1981, 6 girls born in the United States were named Ingeborg, the 9,516th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1930, when 31 were.

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793
babies named Ingeborg since 1880
#9,516
rank in 1981
1930
peak year

US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.

Famous people named Ingeborg

26 on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • Ingeborg Bachmann
    Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
  • Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
    Danish and Swedish royal, 1878–1958
  • Ingeborg
    Belgian singer, born 1966
  • Ingeborg Hochmair
    Austrian electrical engineer, born 1953
  • Ingeborg of Kyiv
    (1100–1137)
  • Ingeborg Schöner
    Actress, born 1935
  • 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, 1440–1507
  • Ingeborg Lüscher
    German artist (born 1936)
  • Ingeborg Schwenzer
    German jurist, born 1951

Questions

Is Ingeborg a boy's or a girl's name?
Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 793 US babies named Ingeborg since 1880 were girls.
When was Ingeborg most popular?
1930 in the United States, when 31 babies were named Ingeborg, its highest rank at 1,386th.