Inga is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Inga in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Inga in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Inga by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Inga ranks at #5,294. That means there are 5,293 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Inga.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Inga annualy. This means that there have been girls named Inga who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Inga have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Inga even more than any other time: in 1889, it holds its present record of rank #358 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Inga was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Inga has never been ranked higher than #358. In 2022, she rivaled the 4,796 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 23 girls named Inga were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Inga were born, there have been 20 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Inga is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Inga and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Inga, you can simply say:
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Inga
Inga
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
N
G
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
N
G
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Inga sounds like this:
