Ingold
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ingold is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the Germanic personal name Ingwald, formed with Ing- (see Ingle 1) -iwalt(an) ‘to rule’.
- USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 176K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.8K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Germanic personal name Ingwald, formed with Ing- (see Ingle 1) -iwalt(an) ‘to rule’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingold 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Ingold | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,978 | 1 in 168K | 2K | Ingold | 252 |
| CH Switzerland | #371 | 1,749 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.7K | Ingold | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 677 | 1 in 5K | 677 | Ingold | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Ingold | 71 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Ingold | 57 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Ingold | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Ingold 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.
In English, from the AngloScandinavian personal name Ingell, Old Norse Ingjaldr (see Ingle).
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)
- Christopher Kelk Ingoldb. 1893GBBritish chemist (1893-1970)
- François Ingoldb. 1894FRFrench soldier (1894–1980)
- Cecil Terence Ingoldb. 1905IEBritish mycologist and biologist (1905-2010)
- Werner Ingoldb. 1919CHSwiss chemist (1919-1995)
- Tim Ingoldb. 1948GBBritish social anthropologist (1948–)
- Maja Ingoldb. 1948CHSwiss politician
- Res Ingoldb. 1954CHSwiss artist
- Mariana Ingoldb. 1958UYsinger, songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist, and teacher
- Isabelle Ingoldb. 1967FRfilm editor and director
- Jeff IngoldUSAmerican TV producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,238 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.7K | #573 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 677 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ingold mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Ingwald, formed with Ing- (see Ingle 1) -iwalt(an) ‘to rule’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Ingold have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Ingold in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingold.
- Where is Ingold most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ingold is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ingold?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,978 people named Ingold in 2010, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Ingold compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Ingold is the 371st most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingoldThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ingold” — the 371st most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.