Ingrid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Old Norse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iŋɡɾið/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingrid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 30th most common given name.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 578(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 644
- COColombia≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95 (inferred from the name graph)
130,768 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Ingrid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ingrid is read(measured from records)
Ingrid is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ingrid in Spanish.
- English23%
A female given name from Old Norse.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ingrid in German.
- Portuguese13%
a female given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Ingrid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.8%
Norrois, de Ing + fríðr « belle, aimée ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Nom scandinave, lié au dieu Ing ; probablement du vieux norrois Ingfríðr.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du vieux norrois Ingvildr/Ingriðr, lié au dieu Ing/Freyr.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ingrid, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingrid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #290 | 130,768 | 1 in 1.6K | 131K | Ingrid | 180 |
| SE Sweden | — | 107,363 | 1 in 95 | 107K | Ingrid | 52 |
| US United States | — | 44,143 | 1 in 7.5K | 44K | Ingrid | 386 |
| CO Colombia | #150 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 53 | Ingrid | 149 |
| GT Guatemala | #30 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 578 | — | Ingrid | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 644 | 31K | Ingrid | 61 |
| NO Norway | — | 24,062 | 1 in 227 | 80K | Ingrid | 52 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | 711 | — | 4 |
130,768 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ingrid is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Nordic: ‘Ing the beautiful’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ingrid of Swedenb. 1910SEqueen consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Bergmanb. 1915SESwedish actress (1915–1982)
- Ingrid Pittb. 1937GBPolish-British actress (1937–2010)
- Margrethe IIb. 1940DKnot in their usual nameQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
- Ingrid Daubechiesb. 1954BEBelgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid Betancourtb. 1961COColombian-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. 2004NONorwegian 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).
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 110 sources across 61 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Ingrid?
- A machine transcription gives /iŋɡɾið/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Ingrid?
- In the etymology graph, Inge, Inger and Inka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Ingrid come from?
- a female given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Ingrid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ingrid a male or female name?
- Ingrid 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 Ingrid mean?
- In English, A female given name from Old Norse.
- In which country does Ingrid have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 131 thousand people named Ingrid, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingrid.
- Where is Ingrid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ingrid is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 95 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ingrid?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 130,768 people named Ingrid in 2022, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Ingrid compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ingrid is the 290th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ingrid?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingridThe 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, “Ingrid” — the 290th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.