Ingrid
A girls’ name of Old Norse origin, meaning beautiful, fair, ing-maiden.
Babies a year
281
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1110
30 babies
How Ingrid has moved
View as table
| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #957 |
| 2016 | #874 |
| 2017 | #938 |
| 2018 | #986 |
| 2019 | #974 |
| 2021 | #998 |
Ingrid by the numbers
In 2025, 30 babies in England and Wales were named Ingrid. In the US, 281 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 578 babies in 1967, making it a 1960s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ingrid. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean beauty
Like Ingrid, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ingrid
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