Ingrid (given name)

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Gender feminine		Word/name Scandinavia

Pronunciation /ˈɪŋɡrɪd/ German pronunciation: [ˈɪŋgʁɪt] Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd] Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈiŋːriː] Danish pronunciation: [ˈiŋʁiːðˀ] Related names Ingrida, Ingirid, Ingerid, Ingfrid, Ingri, Inger

Ingrid is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch 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. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant Ingerid 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 newly born 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.

The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman.

People

Ingerid of Denmark (11th century), Danish princess, Norwegian Queen consort

Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter (12th century), Queen Consort of Norway

Saint Ingrid of Skänninge (13th century), Swedish Roman Catholic abbess

Ingrid Ylva (13th century), Swedish noblewoman

Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Swedish princess, Queen Consort of Denmark

Ingrid Alexandra (born 2004), Norwegian princess

Ingrid Alberini (In-Grid, born 1973), Italian singer

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 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 Chauvin (born 1973), French actress

Ingrid Hafner (1936–1994), British actress

Ingrid Hernandez (born 1999), Famous pediatric doctor

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer

Ingrid Isotamm (born 1979), Estonian actress

Ingrid Janbell (born 1955), Swedish actress, director and lecturer

Ingrid Jeffers (born 1984), American author, revivalist and internatioinal teacher

Ingrid Jensen (born 1966), Canadian trumpet player and composer

Ingrid Kavelaars (born 1971), Canadian actress

Ingrid de Kok (born 1951), South African author

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 Muslim activist

Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979), American singer

Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949), American animal rights activist

Ingrid Nilsen (born 1989), American video blogger

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 Rimland (born 1936), 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 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 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

Fictional characters

Ingrid, from television series Once Upon a Time

Ingrid, from television series Sesame Street

Ingrid, from video game Street Fighter

Ingrid Beauchamp, from novel Witches of East End and television series Witches of East End

Ingrid Cortez, from film trilogy Spy Kids

Ingrid Dracula, from television series Young Dracula

Ingrid Fletcher, from television series Porridge and Going Straight

Ingrid Giraffe, from television series My Gym Partner's a Monkey

Ingrid Third, from television series Fillmore!

References

Ingrid (given name) Wikipedia

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