Ingunn
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ingunn is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Old Norse Ingunnr, from Ing (“the god Ing/Yngvi”) and unna (“to love”).
- ISIceland1 in 639◐
- NONorway1 in 960
- FOFaroe Islands1 in 7.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 73 ●
- 1 in 639 ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
3.9K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Old Norse Ingunnr, from Ing (“the god Ing/Yngvi”) and unna (“to love”).
Sources 2
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #198 | 5,693 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 960 | 20K | Ingunn | 73 |
| IS Iceland | #174 | 549△ | 69 rec. | 1 in 639 | 549 | Ingunn | 47 |
| US United States | — | 468 | 416 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 144 | 107 rec. | 1 in 71K | 144 | Ingunn | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 93 | 95 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 86 | 69 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 42 | 33 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 40△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 147K | 40 | Ingunn | 19 |
| GH Ghana | — | 31 | 31 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | 16 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 3 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #452 | 15 | 0 rec. | — | 39 | Ingunn | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Ingunn | 2 |
Roughly 5.7K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 960). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål20K66%
- Norwegian3.7K12%
- Icelandic3.4K11%
- English6992%
- Danish2511%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 19,792 | 66% |
| Norwegian | 3,712 | 12% |
| Icelandic | 3,351 | 11% |
| English | 699 | 2% |
| Danish | 251 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 65 |
| 1946 | 94 |
| 1947 | 86 |
| 1948 | 83 |
| 1949 | 78 |
| 1950 | 92 |
| 1951 | 99 |
| 1952 | 104 |
| 1953 | 160 |
| 1954 | 160 |
| 1955 | 165 |
| 1956 | 166 |
| 1957 | 167 |
| 1958 | 129 |
| 1959 | 131 |
| 1960 | 132 |
| 1961 | 135 |
| 1962 | 152 |
| 1963 | 139 |
| 1964 | 184 |
| 1965 | 163 |
| 1966 | 147 |
| 1967 | 154 |
| 1968 | 144 |
| 1969 | 250 |
| 1970 | 164 |
| 1971 | 190 |
| 1972 | 141 |
| 1973 | 145 |
| 1974 | 142 |
| 1975 | 112 |
| 1976 | 102 |
| 1977 | 127 |
| 1978 | 107 |
| 1979 | 122 |
| 1980 | 103 |
| 1981 | 89 |
| 1982 | 100 |
| 1983 | 81 |
| 1984 | 80 |
| 1985 | 59 |
| 1986 | 60 |
| 1987 | 50 |
| 1988 | 54 |
| 1989 | 59 |
| 1990 | 43 |
| 1991 | 48 |
| 1992 | 41 |
| 1993 | 43 |
| 1994 | 39 |
| 1995 | 37 |
| 1996 | 24 |
| 1997 | 20 |
| 1998 | 27 |
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 68 years between 1945–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ingunn Utsib. 1948NOSea Sámi sculptor
- Ingun Brechanb. 1954NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian rower and speed skater
- Ingunn Fossb. 1960NONorwegian politician
- Ingunn Gjerstadb. 1963NONorwegian politician
- Ingunn Beate Øyenb. 1968NONorwegian actor
- Ingunn Bollerudb. 1972NONorwegian cyclist
- Ingunn Trosholmenb. 1976NONorwegian politician
- Ingunn Ikdahlb. 1976NOresearcher
- Ingunn Hultgreen Weltzienb. 1986NONorwegian orienteer
- Ingunn Dybendalb. 1986NONorwegian illustrator
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
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 · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ingunn?
- We estimate roughly 6.4 thousand people bear Ingunn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ingunn have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.7 thousand people bear Ingunn in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ingunn.
- Where is Ingunn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ingunn is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 639 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Ingunn compared with other names?
- In Norway, Ingunn is the 198th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Ingunn a male or female name?
- Ingunn 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 Ingunn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Old Norse Ingunnr, from Ing (“the god Ing/Yngvi”) and unna (“to love”).
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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, “Ingunn” — the 198th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.