Ingman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ON Ingimund; first attested Ingemundus 1142 NthCh (Lincolnshire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɪŋmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 763K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ingman 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,394 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ингман in RU Russia.
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)
from ON Ingimund; first attested Ingemundus 1142 NthCh (Lincolnshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 1,394 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 529 | 1 in 19K | 529 | — | — |
| US United States | 436 | 1 in 763K | 507 | Ingman | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 127as Ivalo | 1 in 358K | 127 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Ингман | 43 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
1,394 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Ingman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a derivative of an Anglo-Scandinavian personal name, probably Ingimund, composed of elements meaning ‘Ing protection’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, unexplained. Perhaps a variant of Engman(n), a variant of Enge, with the addition of the personal suffix -mann ‘man’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
- Carl Johan Ingmanb. 1747SESwedish writer (1747-1813)
- Erik Alexander Ingmanb. 1810FIFinnish translator
- Alfred Emil Ingmanb. 1860FIFinnish priest and writer (1860-1917)
- Santeri Ivalob. 1866FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer, journalist and historian (1866–1937)
- Lauri Ingmanb. 1868FIFinnish priest, theologian and politician (1868-1934)
- Albert Ingmanb. 1871FIFinnish politician
- Asko Ivalob. 1901FInot in their usual nameFinnish diplomat
- Olavi Ingmanb. 1903FIFinnish pianist and organist (1903-1990)
- Jan Ingmanb. 1961SESwedish ice hockey player
- Jenny IngmanFIFinnish actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.4K | #1,387 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 612 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 529 | #1,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 507 | #45,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 491 | #41,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 436 | #48,436 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Ingman mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Ingimund; first attested Ingemundus 1142 NthCh (Lincolnshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ingman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪŋmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ingman have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Ingman, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ingman most common?
- Ingman is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ingman?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,394 people named Ingman, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingmanThe 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, “Ingman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.