Ingrid

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

Ingrid

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.

• 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.

• Riding, grid-in, riding

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

Ingrid

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋɡrɪt]

Ingrid f (related adjective Ingridin)

1. a female given name

From Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Ingrid

1. a female given name

• Inga, Inge, Inger

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.ɣrɪt/

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• Hyphenation: In‧grid

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

• Henk en Ingrid

Ultimately from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Ingrid

1. a female given name

• Inga, Inge, Ingel, Inna

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

• IPA^(key): /iŋ.ɡʁid/

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

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

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

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

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

1. a female given name

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

• Inga, Inge

Doublet of Ingiríðr and Ingifríðr.

Ingrid f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ingrid

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ɡrid/[1]
• Rhymes: -inɡrid
• Hyphenation: Ìn‧grid

Ingrid f

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

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

• IPA^(key): /²ɪŋri/

Ingrid f

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

• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• 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.

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Ingrid f

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

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

Ingrid f

1. a female given name

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

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Ingrid c (genitive Ingrids)

1. a female given name

• Ing, Inga, Inger

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• 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.