Ingrid

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Ingríðr

Related Names

See Ingiríðr

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ingridarson

Female

Ingridardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingrids

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ingrid
Accusative:	Ingrid
Dative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingridar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingridin
Partitive:	Ingridiä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ingrid
Accusative:	Ingrid
Dative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingridar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingrids

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ingrid
Genitive:	Ingrids

Name Days

Norway

10 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 October

Sweden

9 October

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • 1900-1950
  • 1930-1949
• Sweden:
  • 1910-1929
• Norway:
  • 1910-1930
  • 1995-2000

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Sør-Noreg (after the Protestant Reformation)
  • Sør-Trøndelag (after the Protestant Reformation)
  • Oppland (18th-19th century)
  • Hedmark (18th-19th century)
• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
  • Vestjylland
• Sweden:
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map
  • Hälsingland (19th century) see map
  • Härjedalen (19th century) see map
  • Jämtland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louisa Margareta (28 March 1910 – 7 November 2000), Queen of Denmark
• Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982), Swedish actress
• Ingrid Lilian Thulin (27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004), Swedish actress
• Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid (born 16 April 1940), Queen of Denmark
• Ingrid Alexandra (born 21 January 2004), Princess of Norway

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		40300	112348	40300	112342	0	6
Denmark		8783	n.a.	8783	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	7281	n.a.	7281	0	0
Greenland		53	156	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		27	36	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		24333	n.a.	24333	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 Ingrid (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.