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Irmgard

Girls' name

Form of Ermengard

Irmgard has been given to 469 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 28 recorded.

Babies named Irmgard, 1962

1 in 673,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Irmgard: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ermengard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Irmgard means

Irmgard is a form of Ermengard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Irmgard is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪʁm.ɡaʁt/ for Irmgard.

Origin, language, and formation

Irmgard comes through Old High German *irmin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ermengard and Ermengarde.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 469 girls were recorded with the name Irmgard between 1901 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,479 in 1930.

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 Irmgard?

Irmgard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962
1 in 673,000
6 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
466,167 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Irmgard 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 1962 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 466,167 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irmgard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Irmgards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Irmgard was born before 1929 — so the typical Irmgard is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
18
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1930s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Irmgard 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 (28)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,479
1930

Where Irmgard is used

Across 1910–2025, Irmgard was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,513 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 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. Irmgard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Irmgard around the world

Where Irmgard 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
    1901–1958
    #1,827
    in 1958
  • South Australia
    1959–1968
    #679
    in 1968

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

Irmgard 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
#1,479
1930
Peak year
1930
28 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
469
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Irmgard

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

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Sibling names for Irmgard

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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