Ingrid

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See also: Ingrið

English

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Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

  1. A female given name from Old Norse.

Usage notes

  • Occasionally borne by Anglophones since the 19th century.
  • Popular name in the royal houses of Scandinavia, also the name of a Swedish 13th century saint.

Translations

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Ingrid, from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

  1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid f (related adjective Ingridin)

  1. a female given name

Declension

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

  1. a female given name

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from modern Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) Ingrid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ.ɣrɪt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: In‧grid

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. a female given name

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid

  1. a female given name

French

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Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

  • Popular in France in the latter half of the 20th century.

German

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Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡʁɪt/, (seldom) /ˈɪŋɡʁiːt/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Ingrid f (proper noun, genitive Ingrids or (with an article) Ingrid)

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

  • Popular in Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Icelandic

Etymology

Doublet of Ingiríðr and Ingifríðr.

Proper noun

Ingrid f (proper noun, genitive singular Ingridar)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ingrid

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. A female given name in Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Norwegian, or Swedish

References

  1. ^ Ingrid in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Old Norse Ingríðr, a variant of Ingiríðr, from Ingifríðr.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. a female given name from Old Norse, variant of Ingerid

References

  • Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 24 492 females with the given name Ingrid living in Norway on 1st January 2022, with frequency peaks in the 1920s and the 1990s. Accessed on 9th November, 2022.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Ingrid, from Old Norse Ingiríðr.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.d͡ʒi/, /ˈĩ.ɡɾid͡ʒ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈĩ.ɡɾid͡ʒ/, /ˈĩ.ɡɾi.d͡ʒi/

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. a female given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Ingrid

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid f (indeclinable)

  1. a female given name

Further reading

  • Ingrid”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈɡɾid/
  • Rhymes: -id
  • Syllabification: In‧grid

Proper noun

Ingrid f

  1. a female given name

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Norse Ingiríðr. Name of Swedish royalty and saints, in continuous use since early Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ingrid c (genitive Ingrids)

  1. a female given name

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 120 889 females with the given name Ingrid living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.