Ingeborga
Barely 700 Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met an Ingeborga. A Germanic name meaning "Ing's protection", it came down through Scandinavia and is given to almost no one now.
Ingeborga Pronunciation
Ingeborga is pronounced een-ge-BOR-gah (/ingɛˈbɔrga/).
What Ingeborga means
Where Ingeborga comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ingeborga comes from the Germanic north, built from two old pieces. The first is Ing, a Norse fertility god also called Yngvi. The second is borg, meaning stronghold or protection. Together they give the sense that Polish keeps as boska ochrona, protection under a god.
The name traveled with Scandinavian speakers before it settled into Polish records, and in Poland it stays close to that Nordic form. It keeps no diminutives and no softened variants. It arrives whole.
Poles tend to know it through Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, the Lithuanian actress whose first name reads plainly on a cinema bill here. Picture a teacher working down the class register and pausing at the four syllables. Short and unusual. The pause is part of the name now.
Its meaning began in cult and in fortification, and Polish carried that forward into boska ochrona, divine protection.
When Ingeborga celebrates name day
Ingeborga appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ingeborga
1 in 32298 women in Poland is named Ingeborga. 698 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1120 among female names.
Ingeborga as a middle name
Ingeborga is a first name for 698 women in Poland and a middle name for another 156, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 530th, between Eve (156) and Anida (155).
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#528 Melissa158
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#529 Eve156
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#530 Ingeborga156
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#531 Anida155
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#532 Samantha155