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Ingar

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Ingar has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ingar, 1964

1 in 555,000

Ingar over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ingar: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ingar means

Ingar is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ingar is used in Norwegian.

Ingar is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Ingar between 1964 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1964; its best national rank was #5,672 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ingar?

Ingar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 555,000
7 of 3,887,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
384,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ingar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 384,941 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ingar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ingars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ingar was born before 1964 — so the typical Ingar is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Ingar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (7)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,672
1964

Spellings of Ingar

Ingar is not the most common spelling — Ginger is, with 50.3% against Ingar's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ingar around the world

Where Ingar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #527
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Ingar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,672
1964
Peak year
1964
7 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ingar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ingar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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