Ingeborg

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ingiborg

Related Names

See Ingiborg

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ingeborgarson

Female

Ingeborgardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ingeborg
Genitive:	Ingeborgs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ingeborg
Genitive:	Ingeborgin
Partitive:	Ingeborgia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ingeborg
Accusative:	Ingeborgu
Dative:	Ingeborgu
Genitive:	Ingeborgar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ingeborg
Genitive:	Ingeborgs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ingeborg
Genitive:	Ingeborgs

Name Days

Denmark

8 October

Norway

14 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

27 May

Sweden

28 May

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: Skast herreds tingbog 1636

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1929
  • 1885-1909
• Denmark:
  • Top 15 in the 17th century in København
  • Top 17 in the 17th century in Nakskov
  • -1910
  • -1950
• Norway:
  • -1905
  • 2000-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Bornholm
• Sweden:
  • Härjedalen (19th century) see map
  • Jämtland (19th century) see map
  • Värmland (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige

Namesakes

• Ingeborg Brams (9 December 1921 – 14 October 1989), Danish actress

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 100563 people were named Ingeborg (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %)
• Ingeborg is an IKEA product name (shower curtain)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		1558	21971	1558	21969	0	2
Finland		n.a.	10702	n.a.	10702	0	0
Denmark		1690	n.a.	1690	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		28	128	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		6	11	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		6841	n.a.	6841	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Ingeborg (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.