Entry № 4570 · Old Norse origin

Ingrid Ingrid — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ING-grid /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Beautiful goddess, fair Ing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "beautiful goddess, fair ing".

Ingrid comes from the Old Norse Ingiríðr — composed of Ing (the Norse god of fertility and prosperity) and fríðr (beautiful, fair) — meaning "beautiful Ing" or "Ing's beautiful one."

The Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), star of Casablanca and three-time Academy Award winner, is the most famous Ingrid. The name remains in use across Scandinavia and is returning to use in the English-speaking world.

Beautiful goddess. The name of Casablanca's heroine.

The name in its native script.

Ingrid
Transliteration
Ingrid
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪŋ.ɡrɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ingrid stands.

Ingrid does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ingrids before her.

Real people
Ingrid Bergman
Swedish-American actress. Three-time Academy Award winner.
1915 – 1982
In fiction

Names connected to Ingrid.

The number behind Ingrid.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ingrid reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.