Ingela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/inela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 529(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.7M
- BJBenin≈1 in 5.4K
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 529 (inferred from the name graph)
19,302 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd. I den rikssvenska almanackan 7 november och i den finlandssvenska 23 januari.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingela 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 | #110 | 19,302 | 1 in 529 | 19K | Ingela | 102 |
| BJ Benin | #195 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Ingela | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 249 | 1 in 22K | 363 | Ingela | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Ingela | 86 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Ingela | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 252 | Ingela | 22 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 28 | Ingela | 6 |
19,302 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
- Ingela Gathenhielmb. 1692SESwedish privateer (1692-1729)
- Ingela Mårtenssonb. 1939SESwedish politician
- Ingela Thalénb. 1943SESwedish politician
- Ingela Gardner Sundströmb. 1943SESwedish politician
- Ingela Strandbergb. 1944SESwedish writer, translator, poet, and playwright
- Ingela Agardhb. 1948SESwedish journalist
- Ingela Olssonb. 1958SESwedish actress
- Ingela Nylund Watzb. 1962SESwedish politician
- Ingela Ericssonb. 1968SECanoeist
- Ingela Anderssonb. 1991SESwedish female biathlete
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19K | #222 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 13K | — |
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 Ingela?
- A machine transcription gives /inela/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Ingela a male or female name?
- Ingela 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 Ingela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ingela är dels ett tyskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Ing(e)-, dels en nysvensk utveckling av → Ingegerd.
- In which country does Ingela have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Ingela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingela.
- Where is Ingela most common?
- Ingela is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 529 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ingela?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19,302 people named Ingela, about 1 in 529 residents.
- How common is Ingela compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ingela is the 110th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ingela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingelaThe 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, “Ingela” — the 110th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.