Ingvald
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ingvald är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden → -vald
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪŋvəɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingvald is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 11K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 22K
- SESweden1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
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)
Ingvald är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden → -vald. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 26 februari.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingvald 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.
476 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ingvald Undsetb. 1853NONorwegian archaeologist
- Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsenb. 1868NONorwegian military officer (1868-1939)
- Alfred Ingvald Naessb. 1877NONorwegian speed skater and figure skater (1877–1955)
- Ingvald Eriksenb. 1884DKgymnast (1884–1961)
- Ingvald Rastadb. 1891NONorwegian politician (1891-1958)
- Ingvald Haugenb. 1894NONorwegian trade unionist (1894-1958)
- Ingvald Ulvesethb. 1924NONorwegian politician (1924-2008)
- Ingvald Godalb. 1934NONorwegian politician
- Eric Knudsenb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican neurobiologist
- Ingvald Falchb. 1963NONorwegian Supreme Court Justice
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 14 sources across 8 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
- Is Ingvald a male or female name?
- Ingvald 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.
- How do you pronounce Ingvald?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪŋvəɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ingvald mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ingvald är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Ing(e)- och efterleden → -vald.
- In which country does Ingvald have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 476 people named Ingvald, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ingvald most common?
- Ingvald is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ingvald?
- In Norway, the national register counted 476 people named Ingvald in 2025, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ingvaldThe 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, “Ingvald”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.