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Ingo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ingo has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1957, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ingo, 1970

1 in 515,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ingo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ingo means

Ingo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ingo is used in German and Old High German.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Ingo is pronounced /ˈɪŋɡo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Ingo between 1957 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1957; its best national rank was #3,124 in 1957.

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 Ingo?

Ingo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970
1 in 515,000
7 of 3,606,302 births
Among boys only
1 in 265,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1970
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
357,101 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ingo 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 1970 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 357,101 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ingo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ingos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ingo was born before 1965 — so the typical Ingo is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
67.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 67.4% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Ingo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (8)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,124
1957

Spellings of Ingo

Ingo is not the most common spelling — Diego is, with 44.7% against Ingo's 0.02%.

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.

Ingo around the world

Where Ingo 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1942–2010
    #6,031
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1952–1992
    #538
    in 1992

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.

Ingo 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
#3,124
1957
Peak year
1957
8 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Ingo

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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