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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Inge m for the male version.
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Inga [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Inga
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Ingen
|
Partitive: |
Ingeä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Inge
|
Genitive: |
Inges
|
Name Days
Norway
|
17 December
|
Finland (Swedish Language)
|
21 June
|
Sweden
|
11 February
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 423 people were named Inge f (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[9] |
|
22331 |
n.a. |
22317 |
n.a. |
14 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
3098 |
17156 |
280 |
444 |
2818 |
16712 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
539 |
n.a. |
387 |
n.a. |
152 |
Greenland[12] |
|
37 |
89 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
4883 |
n.a. |
190 |
n.a. |
4693 |
n.a. |
#: 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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[10][9][14][11]:
Sources: [10] [9] [14] [11]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[14]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no