Ingo

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latinised version of Inge (see Ingi) [1] [2]

2) German short form of names containing the name element ING (cognate of Norse Ingi) [3] [2]

3) Pet form of names containing the name element ING [4]

Related Names

Ingo
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ingo
Genitive: Ingos
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ingo
Genitive: Ingon
Partitive: Ingoa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ingo
Genitive: Ingos
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ingo
Genitive: Ingos

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson (22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009), Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world

Trivia

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Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
148 261 0 0 148 261
Denmark Denmark[9]
124
n.a.
0
n.a.
124
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
117 0 0
n.a.
117
Greenland Greenland[11]
11 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
51
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
51
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Ingo (m) Sources: [8][9][13][10]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no