In 2025, 209 US girls were named Ingrid, making it the 1,121st most common girls’ name of the year, down 30 places from #1,091 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 226 girls named Ingrid in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #380, reached in 1967. That year also had the most girls given the name: 578. For comparison, it was #959 in 2015 and #728 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ingrid in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 27,764 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,873 babies named Ingrid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,516 US girls were named Ingrid; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 321. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,690 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ingrid ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #164 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Engrid, Ingred and Ingrida are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch, German, North Germanic and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.