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Ingeborg

Girls' name

Salvation, through Ingibjǫrg

Ingeborg has been given to 793 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1930, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Ingeborg, 1981

1 in 577,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ingeborg: meaning, origin, and history

Salvation, through Ingibjǫrg

Old Norse

What Ingeborg means

Ingeborg belongs to the name family reached through Ingeborg → Ingibjǫrg. Its meaning is “salvation”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ingeborg is used in Danish, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Ingeborg comes through Old Norse Ingibjǫrg.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ingibjǫrg.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 793 girls were recorded with the name Ingeborg between 1886 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1930; its best national rank was #977 in 1901.

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 Ingeborg?

Ingeborg had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 577,000
6 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 278,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
399,616 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ingeborg 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 1981 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 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ingeborg. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ingeborgs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ingeborg was born before 1926 — so the typical Ingeborg is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
115
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1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Ingeborg 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 1930 (31)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#977
1901

Where Ingeborg is used

Across 1910–2025, Ingeborg was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 173,467 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Ingeborg has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ingeborg around the world

Where Ingeborg 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.

  • France
    1904–1951
    #1,250
    in 1951
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #104
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1948–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ingeborg 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
#977
1901
Peak year
1930
31 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
793
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ingeborg

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

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Sibling names for Ingeborg

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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