Ingolf
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ingolf är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden -olf (→ Ulf-, -olf, -ulf )
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪŋɡɔlf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingolf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.9M
- DKDenmark1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ingolf är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden -olf (→ Ulf-, -olf, -ulf ). Enligt den isländska sagalitteraturen bars detta namn av den förste skandinaven som bosatte sig på Island. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 18 juni.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingolf 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.
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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ingolf Dahlb. 1912DEGerman and American composer and conductor (1912–1970)
- Count Ingolf of Rosenborgb. 1940DKformer Danish prince (born 1940); elder son of Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark
- Ingolf Gorgesb. 1940DEGerman actor and voice actor (1940–2008)
- Ingolf Gaboldb. 1942DEDanish composer
- Ingolf Morkb. 1947NONorwegian ski jumper (1947–2012)
- Ingolf Lückb. 1958DEGerman actor
- Ingolf Roßbergb. 1961DEGerman local politician (FDP), lord mayor of Dresden (born 1961)
- Ingolf Turbanb. 1964DEGerman musician
- Ingolf Wunderb. 1985ATAustrian pianist (born 1985)
- Kjell Ingolf Ropstadb. 1985NONorwegian politician
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 27 sources across 17 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
- How do you pronounce Ingolf?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪŋɡɔlf/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Ingolf mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ingolf är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden -olf (→ Ulf-, -olf, -ulf ).
- Is Ingolf a male or female name?
- Ingolf 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ingolf?
- In the etymology graph, Inge, Ingi and Ingulf are forms of the same name in other languages; Ingo is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Ingolf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Ingolf in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingolf.
- How common is the name Ingolf?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 419 people named Ingolf, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Ingolf compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ingolf is the 732nd most common given name of 156,202 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/ingolfThe 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, “Ingolf” — the 732nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.