Inger
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inger is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’.
- SESweden1 in 163◐
- NONorway1 in 219
- DKDenmark1 in 416
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈106K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 142 ●
- 1 in 163 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled อิงเกอร์ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #83 | 62,447△ | 12K rec. | 1 in 163 | 62K | Inger | 80 |
| NO Norway | #35 | 25,001△ | 8.6K rec. | 1 in 219 | 62K | Inger | 98 |
| DK Denmark | #89 | 14,115△ | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 416 | 14K | Inger | 110 |
| US United States | — | 1,645 | 6K rec. | 1 in 202K | 1.6K | Inger | 142 |
| FI Finland | #897 | 1,539△ | 115 rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 2.7K | Inger | 11 |
| CL Chile | — | 851 | 109 rec. | — | 1 | Inger | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 809△ | 144 rec. | 1 in 21K | 911 | Inger | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 312 | 145 rec. | — | 64 | Inger | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 312 | 245 rec. | — | listed | Inger | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | 250 | 312 rec. | — | 10 | Inger | 18 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 174 | 170 rec. | — | — | Inger | 13 |
| AX Åland Islands | #80 | 140 | 5 rec. | — | 139 | Inger | 3 |
Roughly 62K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 163). 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●
- Danish64K31%
- Norwegian Bokmål62K29%
- English23K11%
- Norwegian17K8%
- Swedish14K7%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 64,331 | 31% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 61,936 | 29% |
| English | 23,039 | 11% |
| Norwegian | 16,925 | 8% |
| Swedish | 14,120 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Inger is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Inger är en dansk-svensk yngre form av → Ingegerd. Namnet har ibland också samman blandats med → Ingrid. I den rikssvenska almanackan 9 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 5 oktober.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, from ODa/OSw Ingvar or ON Yngvarr; first attested Ingeuuar, Imgarus 1066 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Hijo del ejército o hijo de un héroe
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Hija de un héroe, hijo del ejército
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Hungarian, stimulus, charm
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 1,069 |
| 1946 | 1,191 |
| 1947 | 1,079 |
| 1948 | 1,026 |
| 1949 | 979 |
| 1950 | 956 |
| 1951 | 951 |
| 1952 | 957 |
| 1953 | 899 |
| 1954 | 818 |
| 1955 | 800 |
| 1956 | 755 |
| 1957 | 776 |
| 1958 | 700 |
| 1959 | 681 |
| 1960 | 620 |
| 1961 | 621 |
| 1962 | 539 |
| 1963 | 562 |
| 1964 | 571 |
| 1965 | 527 |
| 1966 | 477 |
| 1967 | 451 |
| 1968 | 431 |
| 1969 | 384 |
| 1970 | 337 |
| 1971 | 335 |
| 1972 | 281 |
| 1973 | 255 |
| 1974 | 234 |
| 1975 | 213 |
| 1976 | 204 |
| 1977 | 160 |
| 1978 | 177 |
| 1979 | 170 |
| 1980 | 168 |
| 1981 | 149 |
| 1982 | 170 |
| 1983 | 132 |
| 1984 | 131 |
| 1985 | 123 |
| 1986 | 84 |
| 1987 | 114 |
| 1988 | 91 |
| 1989 | 92 |
| 1990 | 88 |
| 1991 | 80 |
| 1992 | 70 |
| 1993 | 70 |
| 1994 | 63 |
| 1995 | 79 |
| 1996 | 48 |
| 1997 | 61 |
| 1998 | 56 |
| 1999 | 40 |
| 2000 | 33 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 37 |
| 2003 | 41 |
| 2004 | 39 |
| 2005 | 33 |
| 2006 | 37 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 26 |
| 2010 | 25 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 13 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 81 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ingrid of Swedenb. 1910SEnot in their usual namequeen consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Bergmanb. 1915SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1915–1982)
- Ingrid Pittb. 1937GBnot in their usual namePolish-British actress (1937–2010)
- Margrethe IIb. 1940DKnot in their usual nameQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
- Ingrid Daubechiesb. 1954BEnot in their usual nameBelgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid Betancourtb. 1961COnot in their usual nameColombian-French politician
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Swedenb. 1977SEnot in their usual nameheir apparent to the Swedish throne and eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf
- Michelle Williamsb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1980)
- Scarlett Johanssonb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1984)
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norwayb. 2004NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian princess
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 47 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 407 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Inger?
- We estimate roughly 106 thousand people bear Inger (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Inger have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 62 thousand people bear Inger in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled inger.
- Where is Inger most common?
- Inger is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- How common is Inger compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Inger is the 83rd most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
- Is Inger a male or female name?
- Inger 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 Inger mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’.
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About this data
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, “Inger” — the 83rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.