Ingrid (given name)
| Ingrid | |
|---|---|
 Ingrid Bergman, a famous 20th-century Ingrid. | |
| Pronunciation | ING-grid (English); ING-grit (German); ING-ree (Norwegian) |
| Gender | feminine |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Scandinavia |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Ingrida, Ingirid, Ingerid, Ingfrid, Ingri, Inger |
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Ingrid is a Scandinavian 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 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.[2]
The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman.
People called Ingrid:
- Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter, 12th-century Queen Consort of Norway
- Ingrid Ylva, 13th-century Swedish noble
- Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Queen Consort of Denmark
- Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), an Academy Award-winning actress, best known for her lead role in Casablanca
- Ingrid Gärde Widemar (1912–2009) Swedish lawyer, the first female Supreme Court Justice in Sweden
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (born 1921), a Dutch astronomer
- Ingrid von Rosen (1930–1995), wife of film director Ingmar Bergman
- Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931), German actress
- Ingrid Rüütel (born 1935), Estonian folklorist and philologist, former First Lady of Estonia
- Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949), American animal activist, co-founder and president of PETA
- Íngrid Betancourt (born 1961), Colombian politician and former hostage of the FARC guerrilla organization
- Ingrid Mattson (born 1963), Canadian activist
- Ingrid Jensen (born 1966), Swedish trumpet player and composer
- Ingrid van Lubek (born 1971), Dutch triathlete
- Ingrid Kavelaars (born 1971), Canadian actress
- Ingrid Chauvin (born 1973), French actress
- Ingrid Leijendekker (born 1975), Dutch water polo player
- Ingrid Visser (born 1977), Dutch volleyball player
- Ingrid Alberini (born 1978), Italian artist
- Ingrid Tørlen (born 1979), Norwegian beach volleyball player
- Ingrid Michaelson, American singer (born 1979)
- Ingrid Nilsen, American YouTube beauty guru (born 1989)
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2004)
Pseudonyms
- Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov in 1937; died 2010), Polish-born actress
Fictional characters:
- Ingrid (Capcom), from the video game Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Ingrid Dracula, in Young Dracula
- Ingrid Giraffe, from My Gym Partner's A Monkey
- Ingrid Third, from Fillmore!
- A recurring Muppet character on Sesame Street
- Ingrid Beauchamp, from Witches of East End
Notes
- ↑ see e.g. Norman, Teresa (2003). A World of Baby Names. Penguin. p. 499. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no