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Ingmar

Boys' name

The Germanic god of fertility + fame, through Ingimar

Ingmar has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 1990, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ingmar, 1990

1 in 658,000

Ingmar over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ingmar: meaning, origin, and history

The Germanic god of fertility + fame, through Ingimar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ingmar means

Ingmar belongs to the name family reached through Ingmar → Ingimar → Ingimarr → *Ingwômēraz. Its meaning is “the Germanic god of fertility + fame”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ingmar is used in Faroese, French and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ingimar, Ingemar, Ingimarr and *Ingwômēraz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Ingmar between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1990; its best national rank was #7,512 in 1990.

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 Ingmar?

Ingmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 658,000
6 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
456,318 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ingmar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 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 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ingmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ingmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ingmar was born before 1990 — so the typical Ingmar is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ingmar 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 1990 (6)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,512
1990

Spellings of Ingmar

Ingmar is not the most common spelling — Nomar is, with 99.0% against Ingmar's 0.97%.

  • Nomar99.0%612
  • Ingmar0.97%6

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.

Ingmar around the world

Where Ingmar 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
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1970–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ingmar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,512
1990
Peak year
1990
6 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ingmar

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

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Sibling names for Ingmar

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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