Ingeborg
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Ing- (a god name) + burg 'protection, fortress'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪnɡəbɔk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingeborg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 563(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 841
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
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)
Germanic name, from Ing and a word meaning "protection".
Sources 1
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Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ingeborg is read(measured from records)
Ingeborg is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- German61%
from Ing- (a god name) + burg 'protection, fortress'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
a female given name, popular in the 1920's
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ingeborg Bachmann, österreichische Schriftstellerin (ngeburg: weibl. Vom., eindeutschende Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
aus dem Dänischen oder Schwe dischen entlehnter weibl. Vom. (altnord.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English21%
Germanic name, from Ing and a word meaning "protection".
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingeborg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #281 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Ingeborg | 151 |
| SE Sweden | #430 | 18,106 | 1 in 563 | 18K | Ingeborg | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | #631 | 9,606 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.6K | Ingeborg | 78 |
| NO Norway | #234 | 6,498 | 1 in 841 | 22K | Ingeborg | 85 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,872 | 1 in 1.9K | 11K | Ingeborg | 7 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Ingeborg 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: ‘stronghold of Ing’ (an ancient Germanic god).
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)
- Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Franceb. 1174DEQueen Consort of France
- Ingeborg of Norwayb. 1301NONorwegian politician (1301-1361)
- Princess Ingeborg of Denmarkb. 1878DKDanish and Swedish royal
- Princess Margaretha of Swedenb. 1899SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess (1899–1977)
- Ingeborg Bachmannb. 1926ATAustrian poet and author (1926–1973)
- Princess Astrid, Mrs. Fernerb. 1932NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian princess; elder sister of King Harald V of Norway
- Princess Birgitta of Swedenb. 1937SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess (1937-2024); elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Princess Benedikte of Denmarkb. 1944DKnot in their usual nameDanish princess; second daughter and child of King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark
- Ingeborg Hochmairb. 1953ATAustrian electrical engineer
- Marie-Astrid, Archduchess Carl Christian of Austriab. 1954LUnot in their usual nameborn 1954; eldest child of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium
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 55 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22K | #204 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18K | #241 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11K | #206 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9.6K | #247 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 6.5K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6.3K | #572 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.6K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 55 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 41 | #7,542 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,980 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #3 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Ingeborg come from?
- Germanic name, from Ing and a word meaning "protection". Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Ingeborg a male or female name?
- Ingeborg 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.
- In which country does Ingeborg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Ingeborg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingeborg.
- Where is Ingeborg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ingeborg is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 563 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Ingeborg?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪnɡəbɔk/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Ingeborg mean?
- In German, from Ing- (a god name) + burg 'protection, fortress'
- What are other forms of the name Ingeborg?
- In the etymology graph, Ingeburg, Inha and Ingebjørg are forms of the same name in other languages; Inge and Inka are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Ingeborg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 18,106 people named Ingeborg, about 1 in 563 residents.
- How common is Ingeborg compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ingeborg is the 281st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingeborgThe 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, “Ingeborg” — the 281st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.