Inga

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of names beginning with the name element ING ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Related Names

See Ingi

Name Days

Faroe Islands

14 September

Norway

17 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 June

Sweden

25 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Inga
Accusative:	Ingu
Dative:	Ingu
Genitive:	Ingu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Inga
Accusative:	Ingu
Dative:	Ingu
Genitive:	Ingu

Further Information

Namesakes

Inga Sofia Tidblad (29 May 1901 – 12 September 1975), Swedish actress

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		18264	33159	0	0
Denmark[7]		8578	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[8]		1339	2902	0	0
Finland[9]		n.a.	4062	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][7][8][9]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[8]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
5. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi