girls:
27.3k births since 1897
#862 (85th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 1982
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
27.3k births since 1897
#1538 (80th percentile)
The name Ingrid is the #1,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,321 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 80.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #862 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,304 births since 1897. For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1982.
Ingrid first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Ingrid is available in 125 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ingrid has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ingrid reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 51.8% percentile (ranked #356) with 337 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 337 births per million (ranked 51.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ingrid ranks #741 for girls (21.8% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 35.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ingrid reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ingrid".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ingrid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Ingrid is pronounced as IHNGG-rihd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IHNGR-ihd, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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