Yngvar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name of Old Norse origin, akin to Ivor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʏnɡʋɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yngvar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 330as Ingvar(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 621as Ingvar
- NONorway1 in 5.5Kas Ingvar
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yngvar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 330 (inferred from the name graph)
30,896 named Ingvar
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Ingvar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ingvar in SE Sweden, NO Norway.
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 male given name of Old Norse origin, akin to Ivor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yngvar 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.
30,896 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Yngvar 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.
In Swedish, Yngvar är en sidoform till → Ingvar. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 23 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Yngvar Nielsenb. 1843NONorwegian historian and geographer (1843–1916)
- Yngvar Brynb. 1881NONorwegian pair skater, athlete (1881-1947)
- Yngvar Fredriksenb. 1887NONorwegian artistic gymnast
- Yngvar Haugeb. 1899NONorwegian writer (1899–1977)
- Yngvar Hagenb. 1909NONorwegian zoologist (1909-1993)
- Yngvar Ustvedtb. 1928NONorwegian writer (1928-2007)
- Yngvar Løchenb. 1931NONorwegian sociologist
- Yngvar Nummeb. 1944NONorwegian actor (1944–2023)
- Yngvar Ommundsenb. 1952NOresearcher
- Yngvar Håkonsenb. 1978NONorwegian footballer
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 15 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yngvar mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name of Old Norse origin, akin to Ivor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Yngvar?
- In the etymology graph, Igor, Ihor and Ingvar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Yngvar?
- A machine transcription gives /ʏnɡʋɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Yngvar a male or female name?
- Yngvar 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 Yngvar have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Ingvar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yngvar most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yngvar itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 330 people named Ingvar.
- How common is the name Yngvar?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,896 people named Ingvar, about 1 in 330 residents.
What do you want to know about Yngvar?
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/yngvarThe 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, “Yngvar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.