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Ingrid

Ingrid: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“Ing is beautiful”
Origin
Scandinavian
Say it
ING-grid · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

From Old Norse Ingifríðr, combining the god name Ing with fríðr 'beautiful, beloved.' Long used across Scandinavia and also familiar in German-speaking countries.

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How popular is Ingrid?

202468.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Ingrid in 2024225

2024 rank#1,092 girls

Peak year1967

Total US babies since 188027,550

Ingrid has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

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Ingrid questions

What does the name Ingrid mean?

Ingrid means "Ing is beautiful". It comes from Scandinavian. From Old Norse Ingifríðr, combining the god name Ing with fríðr 'beautiful, beloved.' Long used across Scandinavia and also familiar in German-speaking countries.

Is Ingrid a boy or girl name?

Ingrid is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Ingrid?

225 US babies were named Ingrid in 2024. Its peak year was 1967.

How do you pronounce Ingrid?

Ingrid is usually pronounced ING-grid.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.