Ingeborg
Ingeborg was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 793 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ingeborg by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ingeborg mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Ingeborg is “a female given name”
From Old Norse Ingibjǫrg.
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ingeborg?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,514, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1930, the peak
Ingeborg peaked in 1930, when 31 girls were given it, #1,386 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,514 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,589 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,891 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,307 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,164 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,630 | 7.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,159 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,531 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,504 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,928 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #5,835 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,663 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,672 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,563 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,905 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,015 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,357 | 4.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,845 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,844 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,962 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,640 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,264 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,810 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,273 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,900 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,489 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,737 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,570 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,712 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,708 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,386 | 27.5 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,540 | 23.3 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,704 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,641 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,749 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,070 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,881 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,811 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,545 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,031 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,448 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,573 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,322 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,143 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,071 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,382 | 27.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,320 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,090 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,508 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,410 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,239 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,530 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,606 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,337 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,482 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 15 | #986 | 51.4 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,559 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,920 | 19.1 |
| 1901 | 12 | #977 | 50.1 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,364 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,139 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,455 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,255 | 33.6 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,184 | 35.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,352 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,145 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,049 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,371 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,370 | 28.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,031 | 41.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ingeborg a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ingeborg has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ingeborg: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ingeborg, and how old are they?
An estimated 148 Americans named Ingeborg and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,769 people named Ingeborg (2,763 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ingeborg born?
The states with the most babies named Ingeborg are New York, Minnesota and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 100 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Minnesota | 18 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Ingeborg is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ingeborg is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ingeborg with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ingeborg
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ingeborg and names like it
- Compare Ingeborg and EtherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sIngeborg peaked in 1930.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ingeborg since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Ingeborg: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Ingeborg.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ingeborg alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.