Ingryda
A Germanic name: the first part is Ing, the fertility god Yngvi, and the second means fair. Fewer than 300 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it in the whole run of records since 2000.
Ingryda Pronunciation
Ingryda is pronounced eeng-RIH-dah (/ingˈrɨda/).
What Ingryda means
Where Ingryda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ingryda grew from Germanic soil. Its first element is Ing, the name of Yngvi, a god of fertility and plenty among the northern Germanic peoples. The second element means fair or beautiful. Read together, the parts say that Ing is beautiful, which Polish captures as piękna jak bogini.
The name traveled with a close cousin, Ingrida, the variant most heard across Scandinavia and the Baltic. In Poland the spelling settled with a y, giving Ingryda its own footing. Both forms point back to the same god and the same claim of beauty.
Picture a school register in a small Polish town, the teacher reading down the list and stopping at Ingryda, a name far rarer than Anna or Maria. It stands out on the page. The child who carries it holds a link many centuries old to a Germanic deity, and a meaning that still reads plainly: Ing is beautiful.
When Ingryda celebrates name day
Ingryda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 September.
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 Ingryda
1 in 82882 women in Poland is named Ingryda. 272 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1843 among female names.
Ingryda as a middle name
Ingryda is a first name for 272 women in Poland and a middle name for another 58, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 895th, between Eligia (58) and Isabela (58).
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#893 Dagmar58
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#894 Eligia58
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#895 Ingryda58
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#896 Isabela58
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#897 Izaura58