Inger
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɪŋɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inger is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 81st most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 163(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 219
- DKDenmark1 in 416
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
62,447 people
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)
nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Inger is read(measured from records)
Inger is one spelling over 4 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.
- English27%
from ODa/OSw Ingvar or ON Yngvarr; first attested Ingeuuar, Imgarus 1066 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Swedish21%
- Norwegian20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Inger in Norwegian.
- Danish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Inger in Danish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Inger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #81 | 62,447 | 1 in 163 | 62K | Inger | 97 |
| NO Norway | #47 | 25,001 | 1 in 219 | 62K | Inger | 111 |
| DK Denmark | #118 | 14,115 | 1 in 416 | 14K | Inger | 116 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Inger | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,660 | 1 in 200K | 1.6K | Inger | 142 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,539 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.7K | Inger | 10 |
| IS Iceland | — | 28 | 1 in 13K | 28 | Inger | 7 |
62,447 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Inger is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Hijo del ejército o hijo de un héroe
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Hija de un héroe, hijo del ejército
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Hungarian, stimulus, charm
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
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. 1910SEnot in their usual namequeen consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Bergmanb. 1915SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1915–1982)
- Ingrid Pittb. 1937GBnot in their usual namePolish-British actress (1937–2010)
- Margrethe IIb. 1940DKnot in their usual nameQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
- Ingrid Daubechiesb. 1954BEnot in their usual nameBelgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid Betancourtb. 1961COnot in their usual nameColombian-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. 2004NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian 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 48 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Inger mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish ing ‘young’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Inger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪŋɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Inger a male or female name?
- Inger 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 are other forms of the name Inger?
- In the etymology graph, Ingrid, Inge and Inka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Inger have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Inger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled inger.
- Where is Inger most common?
- Inger is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Inger?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 62,447 people named Inger, about 1 in 163 residents.
- How common is Inger compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Inger is the 81st most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingerThe 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, “Inger” — the 81st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.