Inger f

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Female Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Inger m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Swedish younger dialectal variant form (southern Sweden) of Ingerd (see Ingigærðr) [1] [2]

2) Swedish dialectal variant form (eastern and northern Sweden) of Ingri (see Ingifríðr) [1] [2]

Related Names

     
Enger Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Inger Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Iŋger Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Ingerine Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Iŋgir Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Inker Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Iŋŋer Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami

Combinations

For combinations see INGER (name element)

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

26 February

Norway Norway

26 February

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

5 October

Sweden Sweden

9 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1561 [1]

Namesakes

Karin Inger Monica Nilsson, * 1959, Swedish actress, famous for playing the character of Pippi Longstocking

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[3] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m2.png 41009 76051 0 15
Denmark Denmark[4] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m0.png 25180 n.a. 0 n.a
Norway Norway[5] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m0.png 7848 32870 0 0
Finland Finland[6] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 2624 n.a 3
  #: 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[3][4][5][6]:Name statistics for Inger(f)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[5]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Inger(f)


Sources: [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi