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Ingeborg

“the guardian, the protected one”

feminineLatin script

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Origin: Old Norse
10 language contexts: French Spanish German +7 more
Follow the evidence: 14 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Ingeborg

Ingeborg is a feminine given name documented in French, Spanish, German and 7 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Ingibjǫrg. German Wikipedia gives the meaning “the guardian, the protected one”.

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “the guardian, the protected one”

From Old Norse Ingibjǫrg.

Sources for this account (8)

Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (de): IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Dutch Wiktionary accountSource-reportedAfleiding van de Zweedse mannelijke voornaam Bengt

Afleiding van de Zweedse mannelijke voornaam Bengt

Sources for this account (1)

Dutch Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (10)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q656590
Feminine usage in Danish · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in German · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in French · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Norwegian · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Swedish · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Icelandic · French Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Slovene · French Wiktionary: Ingeborg

Explore all 10 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ingeborg” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q656590.

Name days: 05-28 (Sweden), 09-14 (Norway).

All pronunciation details (7)

[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁk] — German
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁɡn̩] — German (plural)
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁ] — German (plural)
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁks] — German (plural)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁk/ — German (singular)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁks/ — German (singular, plural)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁɡn̩/ — German (singular, plural)

02 / Across borders

Where Ingeborg is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Ingeborg’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1981: 6 girls (rank 9110).

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Ingeborg

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 55; births; Rank #104
Peak year: 2004; 171 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ingeborg in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	94	64	observed
1946	82	79	observed
1947	73	82	observed
1948	90	69	observed
1949	81	74	observed
1950	90	71	observed
1951	58	95	observed
1952	64	88	observed
1953	52	100	observed
1954	57	98	observed
1955	49	102	observed
1956	58	96	observed
1957	63	92	observed
1958	83	78	observed
1959	84	78	observed
1960	60	96	observed
1961	64	90	observed
1962	71	85	observed
1963	60	101	observed
1964	72	92	observed
1965	47	118	observed
1966	47	118	observed
1967	51	113	observed
1968	45	131	observed
1969	57	118	observed
1970	40	139	observed
1971	63	110	observed
1972	39	152	observed
1973	52	127	observed
1974	53	125	observed
1975	42	142	observed
1976	46	134	observed
1977	45	130	observed
1978	46	132	observed
1979	51	125	observed
1980	56	120	observed
1981	50	137	observed
1982	45	144	observed
1983	49	129	observed
1984	52	124	observed
1985	56	122	observed
1986	48	140	observed
1987	40	169	observed
1988	53	140	observed
1989	72	104	observed
1990	70	119	observed
1991	71	118	observed
1992	84	100	observed
1993	84	102	observed
1994	89	96	observed
1995	91	96	observed
1996	118	71	observed
1997	100	79	observed
1998	118	59	observed
1999	101	73	observed
2000	117	59	observed
2001	111	59	observed
2002	95	65	observed
2003	134	49	observed
2004	171	36	observed
2005	169	38	observed
2006	141	47	observed
2007	142	44	observed
2008	130	48	observed
2009	123	56	observed
2010	103	64	observed
2011	98	66	observed
2012	94	71	observed
2013	96	68	observed
2014	82	75	observed
2015	79	84	observed
2016	66	95	observed
2017	73	84	observed
2018	83	72	observed
2019	67	88	observed
2020	78	75	observed
2021	59	89	observed
2022	63	86	observed
2023	60	94	observed
2024	47	111	observed
2025	55	104	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Ingeborg” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Ingeborg Bachmann
1926–1973
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
1878–1958
Danish and Swedish royal
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France
1174–1236
Queen Consort of France
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden
1277–1319
Queen consort of Denmark
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg of Norway
1301–1361
Norwegian politician (1301-1361)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Ingeborg with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms12

Wikidata Q656590CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
German Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (de): IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: IngebjørgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: IngeburgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Ingeborg.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ingeborg.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Ingeborg

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “the guardian, the protected one”

From Old Norse Ingibjǫrg.

Sources for this account (8)

Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (de): IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Dutch Wiktionary accountSource-reportedAfleiding van de Zweedse mannelijke voornaam Bengt

Afleiding van de Zweedse mannelijke voornaam Bengt

Sources for this account (1)

Dutch Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (10)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q656590
Feminine usage in Danish · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in German · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in French · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Norwegian · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Swedish · Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Icelandic · French Wiktionary: Ingeborg
Feminine usage in Slovene · French Wiktionary: Ingeborg

Explore all 10 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ingeborg” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q656590.

Name days: 05-28 (Sweden), 09-14 (Norway).

All pronunciation details (7)

[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁk] — German
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁɡn̩] — German (plural)
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁ] — German (plural)
[ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁks] — German (plural)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁk/ — German (singular)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁks/ — German (singular, plural)
/ˈɪŋəˌbɔʁɡn̩/ — German (singular, plural)

Where Ingeborg is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Ingeborg’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1981: 6 girls (rank 9110).

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Ingeborg

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 55; births; Rank #104
Peak year: 2004; 171 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ingeborg in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	94	64	observed
1946	82	79	observed
1947	73	82	observed
1948	90	69	observed
1949	81	74	observed
1950	90	71	observed
1951	58	95	observed
1952	64	88	observed
1953	52	100	observed
1954	57	98	observed
1955	49	102	observed
1956	58	96	observed
1957	63	92	observed
1958	83	78	observed
1959	84	78	observed
1960	60	96	observed
1961	64	90	observed
1962	71	85	observed
1963	60	101	observed
1964	72	92	observed
1965	47	118	observed
1966	47	118	observed
1967	51	113	observed
1968	45	131	observed
1969	57	118	observed
1970	40	139	observed
1971	63	110	observed
1972	39	152	observed
1973	52	127	observed
1974	53	125	observed
1975	42	142	observed
1976	46	134	observed
1977	45	130	observed
1978	46	132	observed
1979	51	125	observed
1980	56	120	observed
1981	50	137	observed
1982	45	144	observed
1983	49	129	observed
1984	52	124	observed
1985	56	122	observed
1986	48	140	observed
1987	40	169	observed
1988	53	140	observed
1989	72	104	observed
1990	70	119	observed
1991	71	118	observed
1992	84	100	observed
1993	84	102	observed
1994	89	96	observed
1995	91	96	observed
1996	118	71	observed
1997	100	79	observed
1998	118	59	observed
1999	101	73	observed
2000	117	59	observed
2001	111	59	observed
2002	95	65	observed
2003	134	49	observed
2004	171	36	observed
2005	169	38	observed
2006	141	47	observed
2007	142	44	observed
2008	130	48	observed
2009	123	56	observed
2010	103	64	observed
2011	98	66	observed
2012	94	71	observed
2013	96	68	observed
2014	82	75	observed
2015	79	84	observed
2016	66	95	observed
2017	73	84	observed
2018	83	72	observed
2019	67	88	observed
2020	78	75	observed
2021	59	89	observed
2022	63	86	observed
2023	60	94	observed
2024	47	111	observed
2025	55	104	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Ingeborg Bachmann
1926–1973
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
1878–1958
Danish and Swedish royal
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France
1174–1236
Queen Consort of France
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden
1277–1319
Queen consort of Denmark
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Ingeborg of Norway
1301–1361
Norwegian politician (1301-1361)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms12

Wikidata Q656590CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
German Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (de): IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: IngeborgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: IngebjørgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: IngeburgCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Ingeborg.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ingeborg.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Ingeborg

Old Norse origin

Where Ingeborg is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Ingeborg Bachmann

Princess Ingeborg of Denmark

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France

Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden

Ingeborg of Norway

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Ingeborg

Old Norse origin

Where Ingeborg is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Ingeborg Bachmann

Princess Ingeborg of Denmark

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France

Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden

Ingeborg of Norway

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page