Ingela

given name · Swedish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ingela is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Swedish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 529◐
  • FIFinland1 in 22K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
88 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 529 ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd. I den rikssvenska almanackan 7 november och i den finlandssvenska 23 januari.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ingela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#11319,302△9.4K rec.1 in 52919KIngela88
US United States—1,5101.3K rec.——Ingela72
NO Norway—36890 rec.—252Ingela20
FI Finland—249△40 rec.1 in 22K363Ingela9
DE Germany—228205 rec.——Ingela33
GB United Kingdom—198174 rec.——Ingela28
AU Australia—6356 rec.——Ingela17
BJ Benin#1876164 rec.——Ingela4
CA Canada—4646 rec.——Ingela9
BR Brazil—4420 rec.——Ingela11
EE Estonia—407 rec.—28Ingela7
NL Netherlands—3819 rec.1 in 455K38Ingela6

Roughly 19K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 529). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swedish11K55%
  • English2.2K11%
  • Finnish1.9K10%
  • German1.3K7%
  • Norwegian6854%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swedish10,68555%
English2,21511%
Finnish1,88410%
German1,2937%
Norwegian6854%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ingela is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name103 records spelled Ingela7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Ингела

  • a separate given name75 records spelled Ingela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, United States

    Also written Ingéla

  • Russian given name44 records spelled Ingela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Russia

    Also written Ингела

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05K10K15K2000200520102015202013K · 2003

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Ingela in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199912,542
200012,546
200112,538
200212,534
200312,584
200412,582
200512,525
200612,520
200712,514
200812,533
200912,528
201012,492
201112,475
201212,434
201312,403
201412,373
201512,327
201612,301
201712,252
201812,176
201912,114
202012,060

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Ingela Gathenhielm, b. 1692Ingela Mårtensson, b. 1939Ingela Thalén, b. 1943Ingela Gardner Sundström, b. 1943Ingela Strandberg, b. 1944Ingela Agardh, b. 1948Ingela Olsson, b. 1958Ingela Nylund Watz, b. 1962Ingela Ericsson, b. 1968Ingela Andersson, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ingela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19K#222
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200313K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200413K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200013K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199913K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200113K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200213K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200813K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200913K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200513K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200613K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200713K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ingela?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Ingela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Ingela have the most bearers?
We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Ingela in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ingela.
Where is Ingela most common?
Ingela is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 529 people carrying it.
How common is Ingela compared with other names?
In Sweden, Ingela is the 113th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
Is Ingela a male or female name?
Ingela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ingela mean?
Recorded meaning: Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ingela” — the 113th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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