Ingar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪŋɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingar is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway. Recorded meaning: A new coinage from the Old Norse elements Ing- "god Ing or Yngvi" + -ar, either herr "army" or geirr "spear".
- NONorway
- SESweden
- PEPeru
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A new coinage from the Old Norse elements Ing- "god Ing or Yngvi" + -ar, either herr "army" or geirr "spear".
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- NONorway
- USUnited States
- PEPeru
- DEGermany
- SESweden
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ingar Nielsenb. 1886NOsailor
- Ingar Nordlundb. 1922NONorwegian speed skater
- Ingar Palmlundb. 1938SESwedish writer
- Ingar Pettersenb. 1946NONorwegian businessman
- Ingar Sletten Kolloenb. 1951NONorwegian author and editor
- Ingar Helge Gimleb. 1956NONorwegian actor
- Ingar Zachb. 1971NONorwegian percussionist and businessman
- Tom Ingar Eliassenb. 1972NONorwegian writer
- Ingar Soltyb. 1979DEGerman writer
- Ingar Stokstadb. 1989NOcyclist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ingar mean, and where does it come from?
- A new coinage from the Old Norse elements Ing- "god Ing or Yngvi" + -ar, either herr "army" or geirr "spear". Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Ingar?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪŋɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Ingar a male or female name?
- Ingar is a male 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.
- In which country does Ingar have the most bearers?
- Ingar is most frequently recorded in Norway.
What do you want to know about Ingar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ingar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.