Ingrid

See also: Ingrið

English

Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

1. A female given name from Old Norse.

Usage notes

• Occasionally borne by Anglophones since the 19th century.
• Popular name in the royal houses of Scandinavia, also the name of a Swedish 13th century saint.

Translations

female given name

• Czech: Ingrid (cs) f
• Danish: Ingrid
• Estonian: Ingrid
• Faroese: Ingirið f, Ingrið f
• Finnish: Inkeri (fi)
• French: Ingrid (fr)
• German: Ingrid (de)
• Latvian: Ingrīda f
• Norwegian: Ingrid (no)
• Portuguese: Ingrid (pt)
• Russian: И́нгрид f (Íngrid)
• Slovak: Ingrid f
• Swedish: Ingrid (sv)

Anagrams

• grid-in, riding, dingir, Riding, Dingri

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Ingrid, from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋɡrɪt]

Proper noun

Ingrid f (related adjective Ingridin)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ingrid (indeclinable feminine // soft zero-ending feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ingrid	Ingrid, Ingride
genitive	Ingrid, Ingride	Ingrid, Ingridí
dative	Ingrid, Ingridi	Ingrid, Ingridím
accusative	Ingrid	Ingrid, Ingride
vocative	Ingrid, Ingridi	Ingrid, Ingride
locative	Ingrid, Ingridi	Ingrid, Ingridích
instrumental	Ingrid, Ingridí	Ingrid, Ingridemi

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Inga, Inge, Inger

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from modern Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) Ingrid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.ɣrɪt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: In‧grid

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

Derived terms

• Henk en Ingrid

Estonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Inga, Inge, Ingel, Inna

French

Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iŋ.ɡʁid/

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Popular in France in the latter half of the 20th century.

German

Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡʁɪt/, (seldom) /ˈɪŋɡʁiːt/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ingrid f (proper noun, genitive Ingrids or (with an article) Ingrid)

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Popular in Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Related terms

• Inga, Inge

Icelandic

Etymology

Doublet of Ingiríðr and Ingifríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ingrid

Declension

Declension of Ingrid
f-s1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Ingrid
accusative	Ingrid
dative	Ingrid
genitive	Ingridar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ɡrid/
• Rhymes: -inɡrid
• Hyphenation: Ìn‧grid

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. A female given name in Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Norwegian, or Swedish

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Ingríðr, a variant of Ingiríðr, from Ingifríðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɪŋri/

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name from Old Norse, variant of Ingerid

References

• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 24 492 females with the given name Ingrid living in Norway on 1st January 2022, with frequency peaks in the 1920s and the 1990s. Accessed on 9th November, 2022.

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.d͡ʒi/, /ˈĩ.ɡɾid͡ʒ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.d͡ʒi/, /ˈĩ.ɡɾid͡ʒ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾid͡ʒ/, /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.d͡ʒi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.dɨ/ [ˈĩ.ɡɾi.ðɨ]

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name from Swedish, equivalent to English Ingrid

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinɡrit]

Proper noun

Ingrid f (indeclinable)

1. a female given name

Further reading

• “Ingrid”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈɡɾid/ [ĩŋˈɡɾið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: In‧grid

Proper noun

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ingiríðr. Name of Swedish royalty and saints, in continuous use since early Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ingrid c (genitive Ingrids)

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Ing, Inga, Inger

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 120 889 females with the given name Ingrid living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.