Derived from the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, Ingrid means ‘Ing is beautiful’. Ing was a Germanic masculine name and a fertility god of the so-called Ingaevones. In the US, Ingrid is known since the late 19th century.
Ingrid is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Ingrid isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Ingrid ranks 882. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Ingrid. In the entire USA, approximately 22,040 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ingrid. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Derived from the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, Ingrid means ‘Ing is beautiful’. Ing was a Germanic masculine name and a fertility god of the so-called Ingaevones. In the US, Ingrid is known since the late 19th century.
The Ingaevones were a... Germanic cultural group in ancient times. They lived in today's Denmark and north-western Germany.
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 six letters, the name Ingrid is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Ingrid 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 Ingrid, you can simply say:
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Rocket
Igloo
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ingrid
Ingrid
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
N
G
R
I
D
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
R
I
D
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. Ingrid sounds like this:
