Ingrid
Ingrid was given to 209 girls in 2025, #1,121 among girls’ names; 27,764 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,400 Americans named Ingrid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 20 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ingrid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ingrid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ingrid is “a female given name from Old Norse.”
From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.
/ˈɪŋ.ɡɹɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ingrid?
#1,121 among girls’ names, 2025
Ingrid fell from #959 in 2015 to #1,121 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.13 per 1,000.
578 babies in 1967, the peak
Ingrid peaked in 1967, when 578 girls were given it, #380 among girls’ names. The 209 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 226 | #1,091 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,140 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 224 | #1,109 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 256 | #1,001 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 252 | #1,008 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 267 | #974 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 267 | #988 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 281 | #938 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 321 | #874 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 283 | #959 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 291 | #925 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 287 | #896 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 287 | #911 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 308 | #857 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 354 | #778 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 354 | #801 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 564 | #545 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 477 | #626 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 470 | #619 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 429 | #647 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 443 | #618 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 374 | #701 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 340 | #722 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 328 | #733 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 257 | #855 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 252 | #857 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 236 | #892 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 237 | #862 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 256 | #803 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 239 | #822 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 273 | #759 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 290 | #728 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 306 | #705 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 243 | #833 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 281 | #740 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 256 | #761 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 206 | #865 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 230 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 248 | #720 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 213 | #786 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 247 | #682 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 268 | #640 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 272 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 277 | #642 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 287 | #635 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 257 | #672 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 235 | #680 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 305 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1976 | 337 | #526 | 0.23 |
| 1975 | 352 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 362 | #487 | 0.25 |
| 1973 | 388 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 469 | #415 | 0.31 |
| 1971 | 507 | #417 | 0.30 |
| 1970 | 523 | #425 | 0.30 |
| 1969 | 479 | #440 | 0.28 |
| 1968 | 484 | #431 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 578 | #380 | 0.35 |
| 1966 | 524 | #404 | 0.31 |
| 1965 | 500 | #417 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 535 | #424 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 466 | #448 | 0.24 |
| 1962 | 427 | #467 | 0.22 |
| 1961 | 425 | #473 | 0.21 |
| 1960 | 455 | #459 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 437 | #460 | 0.22 |
| 1958 | 372 | #498 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 356 | #504 | 0.17 |
| 1956 | 259 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 226 | #616 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 220 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 224 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 205 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 169 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 138 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 249 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 251 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1947 | 317 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1946 | 290 | #457 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 180 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1944 | 179 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 177 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 96 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 92 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 64 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 45 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 54 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 58 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,428 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,700 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 50 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 50 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 33 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,184 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,073 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,456 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ingrid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ingrid has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 127 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ingrid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ingrid, and how old are they?
24,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 27,764 Americans ever recorded as Ingrid. The median Ingrid alive today is 42 years old; half are between 20 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 44,143 people named Ingrid (44,055 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,859 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 501 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,770 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,360 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ingrid born?
The states with the most babies named Ingrid are California, New York and Texas, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 4,449 | #1,126 | 1.5× |
| New York | 3,488 | #1,578 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 2,018 | #1,843 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,508 | #1,307 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 1,013 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 889 | #1,997 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 839 | #334 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 814 | #1,007 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 651 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 632 | #1,198 | 0.5× |
Where Ingrid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ingrid 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 Ingrid 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 Ingrid
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 Ingrid and names like it
- Compare Ingrid and MaryaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sIngrid peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ingrid since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Ingrid.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ingrid alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with IMost given first.