Ingeborg

Where Ingeborg comes from

Ingeborg hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1174
    Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France born
    Queen Consort of France
  2. 1886
    First appearance
    #993 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1901
    Peak, #961
    12 babies named Ingeborg — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1926
    Ingeborg Bachmann born
    Austrian poet and author
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ingeborg Bachmann · Austrian poet and author, 1926–1973
  • Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France · Queen Consort of France, 1174–1236
  • Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden · Queen consort of Denmark, 1277–1319
  • Ingeborg of Norway · Norwegian politician, 1301–1361
  • Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway · Queen consort of Norway, 1244–1287

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.