Ingrid (given name) explained
| Ingrid |
| Pronunciation: |
pronounced as /de/
in Swedish ˈɪ̌ŋːrɪd/
in Norwegian ˈɪ̀ŋrɪ/
in Danish ˈiŋˌʁiːðˀ/ |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | fair, beautiful |
| Origin: | Scandinavia |
| Related Names: | Ingrida, Ingrīda, Ingirid, Ingris, Ingerid, Ingfrid, Ingri, Inger, Inkeri |
Ingrid is a feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, which was a short form of Ingfríðr, composed of the theonym Ing and the element fríðr "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names.[1] The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant Ingerid, Ingris or Ingfrid; short forms Inga, Inger, Ingri) remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway.Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newborn girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s, but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s.[2]
People
- Ingerid of Denmark (11th century), Danish princess, Norwegian Queen consort
- Saint Ingrid of Skänninge (13th century), Swedish Roman Catholic abbess
- Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Swedish princess, Queen Consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Alberini (In-Grid, born 1973), Italian singer
- Ingrid Alexandra (born 2004), Norwegian princess
- Ingrid Andress, American singer-songwriter
- Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931), German actress
- Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), Swedish actress
- Íngrid Betancourt (born 1961), Colombian politician
- Ingrid Bjørnov (born 1963), Norwegian musician
- Ingrid Bruce (1940–2012), Swedish civil engineer
- Ingrid Bruckert (born 1952), German field hockey player
- Ingrid Burley (born 1986), American singer and rapper
- Ingrid Burman (born 1952), Swedish politician
- Ingrid Caven (born 1938), German actress
- Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, American journalist and television producer
- Ingrid Chauvin (born 1973), French actress
- Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician
- Ingrid Deltenre (born 1960), Dutch-Swiss manager
- Ingrid Engen (born 1998), Norwegian international football player
- Ingrid Fliter (born 1973), Argentinian classical pianist
- Ingrid Godon (born 1958), Flemish illustrator
- Ingrid del Carmen Montes González (born 1985), Chemistry Professor and Director-at-large at ACS since 2013
- Ingrid Guimarães (born 1972), Brazilian actress, comedian
- Ingrid Hafner (1936–1994), British actress
- Ingrid Hernandez (born 1988), Colombian race walker
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer
- Ingrid Isotamm (born 1979), Estonian actress
- Ingrid Janbell (born 1955), Swedish actress, director and lecturer
- Ingrid Jensen (born 1966), Canadian trumpet player and composer
- Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965), South African poet
- Ingrid Kavelaars (born 1971), Canadian actress
- Ingrid de Kok (born 1951), South African author
- Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (born 1996), Norwegian biathlete
- Ingrid Leijendekker (born 1975), Dutch water polo player
- Ingrid van Lubek (born 1971), Dutch triathlete
- Ingrid Lukas (born 1984), Estonian musician
- Ingrid Luterkort (1910–2011), Swedish actress
- Ingrid Mattson (born 1963), Canadian activist and scholar
- Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979), American singer
- Ingrid Moses-Scatliffe (born 1969), British lawyer politician from the British Virgin Islands
- Ingrid Nargang (1929–2019), Austrian judge and contemporary historian
- Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949), American animal rights activist
- Ingrid Nilsen (born 1989), American video blogger
- Ingrid Noll (born 1935), German author
- Ingrid Oliveira (born 1996), Brazilian competitive diver
- Ingrid Oliver (born 1977) British comedienne
- Ingrid Park (born 1971), New Zealand television actress
- Ingrid Paul (born 1964), Dutch speed skater
- Ingrid Pedersen (1933–2012), Swedish aviator
- Ingrid Peters (born 1954), German singer
- Ingrid Pitt (1937–2010), Polish-British actress
- Ingrid Puusta (born 1990), Estonian windsurfer
- Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter (12th century), Queen Consort of Norway
- Ingrid Rimland (1936–2017), American psychologist and author
- Ingrid Marie Rivera (born 1983), Puerto Rican actress and model
- Ingrid Rivera Rocafort, Puerto Rican businesswoman
- Ingrid Rodríguez (born 1991), Ecuadorian footballer
- Ingrid von Rosen (1930–1995), Swedish diarist, wife of film director Ingmar Bergman
- Ingrid Rubio (born 1975), Spanish actress
- Ingrid Rüütel (born 1935), Estonian folklorist and philologist, First Lady of Estonia
- Ingrid Silva, Brazilian ballet dancer
- Ingrid Sischy (1952–2015), South African-born American art and fashion editor
- Ingrid Skop, American ob-gyn and anti-abortion activist
- Ingrid Steeger (1947–2023), German actress and comedian
- Ingrid Stengård, Finnish mountain bike orienteer
- Ingrid Stöckl (born 1969), Austrian alpine skier
- Ingrid Thulin (1926–2004), Swedish film actress
- Ingrid Tørlen (born 1979), Norwegian beach volleyball player
- Ingrid Veninger (born 1968), Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor
- Ingrid Visser (born 1966), New Zealand scientist of Dutch parentage
- Ingrid Visser (1977–2013), Dutch volleyball player
- Ingrid Gärde Widemar (1912–2009), Swedish lawyer and politician
- Ingrid Wildi Merino (born 1963), Chilean-born Swiss video artist
- Ingrid Ylva (13th century), Swedish noblewoman
Fictional characters
- Ingrid, from television series Once Upon a Time
- Ingrid, from television series Sesame Street
- Ingrid, a character from the fighting game series Street Fighter and the video game Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Ingrid Beauchamp, from novel Witches of East End and television series Witches of East End
- Ingrid Avellan Cortez, from the Spy Kids film trilogy
- Ingrid Dracula, from horror drama comedy Young Dracula
- Ingrid Fletcher, from television series Porridge and Going Straight
- Ingrid Brandl Galatea, from the video game
- Ingrid Giraffe, from the animated television series My Gym Partner's a Monkey
- Ingrid Navarro, an antagonist from the Mexican telenovela Abismo de pasión
- Ingrid Third, from the animated television series Fillmore!
- Ingrid Thorburn, from the black comedy drama Ingrid Goes West
External links
Notes and References
- See e.g. Book: Norman, Teresa . A World of Baby Names . Penguin . 2003 . 499 . 0-399-52894-6.
- Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
