Inger f

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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
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
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	♀
Inger	♀
Iŋger	♀
Ingerine	♀
Iŋgir	♀
Inker	♀
Iŋŋer	♀

Combinations

For combinations see INGER (name element)

Name Days

Denmark

26 February

Norway

26 February

Finland (Swedish Language)

5 October

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
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		41009	76051	0	15
Denmark[4]		25180	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		7848	32870	0	0
Finland[6]		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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

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