Meaning not yet researched.
Inga: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #368 in 1889.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #368 in 1889; #9,714 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Inga in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,714 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1889, at #368.
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Inga: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #368 in 1889 · most girls in one year: 115 (1969).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Inga, making it the 9,714th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,067 places from #8,647 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Inga in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #368, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 115, in 1969. For comparison, it was #5,906 in 2015 and #3,132 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Inga in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 8 babies with the name. In all, 4,127 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 635 babies named Inga.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US girls were named Inga; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Inge and Enga are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian, German, Latvian, Polish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Inge (717), Enga (29).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Inga in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,714 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,647 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,237 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,533 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,464 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,614 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,305 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,866 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,269 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,906 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,434 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,222 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,031 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,167 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,348 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,293 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,058 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,979 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,001 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,570 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,743 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,221 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,748 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,665 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,315 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,371 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,545 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,295 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,932 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,292 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,809 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1972 | 83 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,819 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1914 | 42 | #907 | — | — |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #988 | — | — |
| 1911 | 21 | #970 | — | — |
| 1910 | 29 | #801 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1908 | 19 | #926 | — | — |
| 1907 | 28 | #718 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #809 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #719 | — | — |
| 1904 | 21 | #788 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #584 | — | — |
| 1902 | 24 | #701 | — | — |
| 1901 | 29 | #582 | — | — |
| 1900 | 34 | #606 | — | — |
| 1899 | 39 | #473 | — | — |
| 1898 | 46 | #452 | — | — |
| 1897 | 36 | #481 | — | — |
| 1896 | 38 | #473 | — | — |
| 1895 | 35 | #495 | — | — |
| 1894 | 40 | #443 | — | — |
| 1893 | 43 | #409 | — | — |
| 1892 | 47 | #387 | — | — |
| 1891 | 35 | #424 | — | — |
| 1890 | 41 | #398 | — | — |
| 1889 | 43 | #368 | — | — |
| 1888 | 29 | #460 | — | — |
| 1887 | 28 | #415 | — | — |
| 1886 | 21 | #483 | — | — |
| 1885 | 28 | #387 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #489 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #551 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #519 | — | — |
| 1881 | 15 | #438 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #650 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).