Meaning not yet researched.
Inger: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #932 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #932 in 1966. No US babies were recorded with the name Inger in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #932 in 1966.
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Inger: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #932 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 118 (1966).
Fewer than five US girls were named Inger in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #932, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 118. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Inger in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 1,372 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 627 babies named Inger.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Inger.
Rarer spellings such as Ingar and Enger 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 Danish, Dutch and Norwegian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ingar (7), Enger (6).
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 Inger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | #11,583 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,165 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,644 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,947 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,649 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,816 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1971 | 67 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1967 | 58 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1966 | 118 | #932 | — | — |
| 1965 | 101 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1964 | 107 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,543 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,907 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,085 | — | — |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,898 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,371 | — | — |
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).