# Ingrid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ingrid/  
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 | Norse |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɪŋ.ɡɹɪd/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 27,764 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17 / 27,747 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 730, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 308 | 857 |
| 2012 | 287 | 911 |
| 2013 | 287 | 896 |
| 2014 | 291 | 925 |
| 2015 | 283 | 959 |
| 2016 | 321 | 874 |
| 2017 | 281 | 938 |
| 2018 | 267 | 988 |
| 2019 | 267 | 974 |
| 2020 | 252 | 1,008 |
| 2021 | 256 | 1,001 |
| 2022 | 224 | 1,109 |
| 2023 | 213 | 1,140 |
| 2024 | 226 | 1,091 |
| 2025 | 209 | 1,121 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 6,750 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,496 |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,950 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,297 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,433 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2015 | 35 | 1,007 |
| 2016 | 40 | 916 |
| 2017 | 39 | 949 |
| 2018 | 43 | 864 |
| 2019 | 40 | 897 |
| 2020 | 48 | 765 |
| 2021 | 51 | 734 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,255 |
| 2024 | 26 | 1,262 |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,110 |

## In other languages

- Czech: Ingrid
- Danish: Ingrid
- Estonian: Ingrid
- Finnish: Inkeri
- French: Ingrid
- German: Ingrid
- Latvian: Ingrīda
- Norwegian: Ingrid
- Portuguese: Ingrid
- Russian: И́нгрид
- Slovak: Ingrid
- Swedish: Ingrid

## People named Ingrid

- Ingrid Alexandra, Crown Princess of Norway, Crown Princess of Norway
- Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian-French politician
- Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (1921–2015)
- Ingrid Becker, German former athletics competitor, politician (CDU), and teacher (born 1942)
- Ingrid Newkirk, British-American animal rights advocate, author & activist
- Ingrid Auerswald, German athlete
- Ingrid Jonker, Bilingual South African poet and political dissident (1933–1965)
- Ingrid Gulbin, East German sports diver
- Ingrid Noll, German crime writer
- Ingrid Caven, German-French film actress and singer
- Ingrid Visser, Dutch female volleyball player (1977-2013)

## 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.