Ingrid (name)

Ingrid Bergman, a famous 20th-century Ingrid
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡrɪd/ German pronunciation: [ˈɪŋgʁɪt] Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd] Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈiŋːriː] Danish pronunciation: [ˈiŋʁiːðˀ]
Gender	feminine
Word/name	Scandinavia
Related names	Ingrida, Ingirid, Ingerid, Ingfrid, Ingri, Inger

Ingrid is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name Ingiríðr, which was a short form of Ingfríðr, composed of the theonym Ing and the element fríðr "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant Ingerid or Ingfrid; short forms Inga, Inger, Ingri) remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway. Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newly born girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s, but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s.

The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman.