Ingrid
About 27,764 American babies have been named Ingrid since 1897, most of them around 1967. In 2025 it ranked 1,120th. About 25,000 Ingrids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ingrid boys named Ingrid
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,764
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 380th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,120th
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 27,747 / 17
How old the living Ingrids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,764 babies given the name since 1897, about 25,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 5,200 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old Norse
From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ingrids
- Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982)Swedish actress
- Ingrid Betancourt (born 1961)Colombian-French politician
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2004)Norwegian princess
- Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000)queen consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Thulin (1929–2004)Swedish actress
- Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954)Belgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015)Dutch astronomer
- Ingrid Pitt (1937–2010)Polish-British actress
People named Ingrid with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ingrid is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ingrid is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.5×), Minnesota (2.0×), New York (2.0×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular girls’ names the year Ingrid peaked:
Ingrid elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Ingrid | 27,900 | 48th |
| Norway girls | Ingrid | 23,427 | 1st |
| Sweden girls | Ingrid | 3,275 | 49th |
| England and Wales girls | Ingrid | 730 | 734th |
| Italy girls | Ingrid | 712 | — |
| Denmark girls | Ingrid | 680 | 25th |
| Ireland girls | Ingrid | 336 | 189th |
| Scotland girls | Ingrid | 167 | 252nd |
| Poland girls | Ingrid | 87 birth registrations | 332nd |
| Belgium girls | Ingrid | 80 | 912th |
| Switzerland girls | Ingrid | 75 | 737th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ingrid: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ingrid | 54 | 0.004% | 543rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ingrid | 19 | 0.004% | 359th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Ingrid | 2 | 0.003% | 161st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ingrid: rank by region
In 2015, Ingrid was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Ingrid | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ingrid by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ingrid among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Ingrid | 31,177 | 37,674 |
| Finland girls | Ingrid | 814 | 2,956 |
| the Netherlands boys | Ingrid | — | 245 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ingrid lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,188 women called Ingrid were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Ingrid | 535 | 1.292 | 124 |
| Lleida | Ingrid | 264 | 1.185 | 141 |
| Tarragona | Ingrid | 464 | 1.061 | 163 |
| Barcelona | Ingrid | 2,941 | 0.966 | 165 |
| Palmas, Las | Ingrid | 261 | 0.442 | 285 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Ingrid | 107 | 0.339 | 330 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ingrid against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.