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Inge

Girls' name

The god Ing or Yngvi

Inge has been given to 717 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1967, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Inge, 2021

1 in 678,000

Inge 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inge: meaning, origin, and history

The god Ing or Yngvi

Old Norse

What Inge means

Inge means “the god Ing or Yngvi”, associated with Norse.

Origin, language, and formation

Inge is used in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ingrid.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Inge is pronounced /ˈiŋːe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 717 girls were recorded with the name Inge between 1924 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1967; its best national rank was #1,912 in 1931.

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 Inge?

Inge had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inge 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inge was born before 1961 — so the typical Inge is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
525
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1960s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (217).

Is Inge 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 1967 (30)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,912
1931

Spellings of Inge

Inge is not the most common spelling — Anne is, with 45.0% against Inge's 0.10%.

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.

Where Inge is used

Across 1910–2025, Inge was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 305,156 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Inge has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Inge around the world

Where Inge 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.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • France
    1932–1989
    #3,070
    in 1989
  • South Australia
    1948–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Inge 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,912
1931
Peak year
1967
30 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
717
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Inge

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

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Sibling names for Inge

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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