Ingrid
Fewer than a thousand Polish women carry it, and it has gone quiet lately: no newborn girls in the past few years. Germanic at root, tied to the god Ing with the old sense of "fair".
Ingrid Pronunciation
Ingrid is pronounced EENG-reet (/ˈingrit/).
What Ingrid means
Where Ingrid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ingrid grew out of the Old Norse name Ingríðr, which joins the god-name Ing to the word fríðr, meaning fair or beautiful. Ing was another title for Freyr, the Norse god of harvest and plenty. Put together, the parts say that Ing is beautiful.
The name spread with Scandinavian families and stayed common across Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Its best-known bearer is Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish actress who won three Academy Awards. Because of her, many people first met the name on a cinema poster.
In Poland the spelling holds steady, and no diminutive has attached itself to it. Ingrid keeps its shape. On a class register it sits among the Zosias and Kasias without shrinking to a nickname. The old meaning stays readable once you learn the roots: Ing is beautiful.
How many people are named Ingrid
1 in 25473 women in Poland is named Ingrid. 887 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1008 among female names.
Ingrid's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Ingrid as a middle name
Ingrid is a first name for 887 women in Poland and a middle name for another 313, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 383rd, between Anh (313) and Margareta (311).
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#383 Ingrid313
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#384 Margareta311
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