Name: Ingrid
Gender: Female
Usage: Ingrid, of norse origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Ingrid are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Ingrid across the world, see Ing.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Ingrid is: A meadow.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Ingrid is ranked on the 953rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 567300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.008% of the population. The name Ingrid has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Ingrid for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Ingrid is 2 September.
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History and Origin
Ingrid is a Scandinavian feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, which was a short form of Ingfríðr, composed of the theonym Ing and the element fríðr "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant Ingerid or Ingfrid; short forms Inga, Inger, Ingri) remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway. Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newly born girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s, but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s.
The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman.
People called Ingrid:
- Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter, 12th-century Queen Consort of Norway
- Ingrid Ylva, 13th-century Swedish noble
- Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Queen Consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), an Academy Award-winning actress, best known for her lead role in Casablanca
- Ingrid Gärde Widemar (1912–2009) Swedish lawyer, the first female Supreme Court Justice in Sweden
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (born 1921), a Dutch astronomer
- Ingrid von Rosen (1930–1995), wife of film director Ingmar Bergman
- Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931), German actress
- Ingrid Rüütel (born 1935), Estonian folklorist and philologist, former First Lady of Estonia
- Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949), American animal activist, co-founder and president of PETA
- Íngrid Betancourt (born 1961), Colombian politician and former hostage of the FARC guerrilla organization
- Ingrid Mattson (born 1963), Canadian activist
- Ingrid Paul (born 1964), Dutch speed skater
- Ingrid Jensen (born 1966), Swedish trumpet player and composer
- Ingrid van Lubek (born 1971), Dutch triathlete
- Ingrid Kavelaars (born 1971), Canadian actress
- Ingrid Chauvin (born 1973), French actress
- Ingrid Leijendekker (born 1975), Dutch water polo player
- Ingrid Visser (1977-2013), Dutch volleyball player
- Ingrid Alberini (born 1978), Italian artist
- Ingrid Tørlen (born 1979), Norwegian beach volleyball player
- Ingrid Michaelson, American singer (born 1979)
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2004)
Pseudonyms
- Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov in 1937; died 2010), Polish-born actress
Fictional characters:
- Ingrid (Capcom), from the video game Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Ingrid Dracula, in Young Dracula
- Ingrid Giraffe, from My Gym Partner's A Monkey
- Ingrid Third, from Fillmore!
- Ingrid Cortez, a character in the Spy Kids franchise
- A recurring Muppet character on Sesame Street
- Ingrid Beauchamp, from Witches of East End
- Ingrid, a re-imagining of the Snow Queen, from Once Upon a Time
Scandinavian and German: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the name of the fertility god Ing + fríðr fair, beautiful. It was introduced into the English-speaking world in the 20th century and became extremely popular, largely because of the fame of the Swedish film actress Ingrid Bergman (1915–82).
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