Ingegerd (Old Norse ''Ingigerðr, Ingigærðr'') is a Scandinavian feminine given name, from the theonym ''
Ing
Ing, ING or ing may refer to:
Art and media
* '' ...ing'', a 2003 Korean film
* i.n.g, a Taiwanese girl group
* The Ing, a race of dark creatures in the 2004 video game '' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''
* "Ing", the first song on The Roches' 1992 ...
'' combined with the element ''garðr '' "enclosure, protection". The name
Inger
Inger may refer to:
People
* Inger (given name), a list of people
* Inger, the main character of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ''The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf''
* Robert F. Inger (1920–2019), American herpetologist
* Stella Inger, America ...
is a short form. In Finnish the equivalence of Ingegerd is
Inkeri
Ingria is a historical region in what is now northwestern European Russia. It lies along the southeastern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordered by Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus in the north and by the River Narva on the border with Esto ...
.
''Ingegerd'' (less commonly in the variant ''Ingegärd'') was most popularly given in modern
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
during the 1920s to 1930s, but the name remains in wide use today. The name is also found in Denmark and in Norway (also in the variant ''Ingegjerd'' and ''Ingjerd'') but much more rarely than in Sweden. According to the respective statistic offices, as of 2012 there were 7792 people called Ingegerd in Sweden, compared to 127 in Norway and 76 in Denmark. In Finland, which has an
ethnic Swedish population of about 0.34 million, there were 2594 people called Ingegerd as of May 2013, as in Sweden peaking among the generation of women born between 1920 and 1940, with the name given six times to girls born in three-year period 2010–2012).
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People called Ingegerd
*Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden
Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, also known as Irene, Anna and Saint Anna (1001 – 10 February 1050), was a Swedish princess and a Grand Princess of Kiev. She was the daughter of Swedish King Olof Skötkonung and Estrid of the Obotrit ...
(1001–1050)
*Ingegerd Knudsdatter
Ingegerd Knutsdatter of Denmark also called ''Ingerta'' and ''Ingerd'' (born between 1080 and 1085 – year of death unknown), was a Danish princess, daughter of King Canute IV of Denmark and Queen Adela. She is regarded as the founding mother of ...
(fl. 1100)
*Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo
Ingegerd (or ''Ingegärd'') Birgersdotter of Bjelbo (or ''Bjälbo''; ca. 1180–7 April after 1210, possibly 1230) was Queen of Sweden as the second wife of King Sverker II.
Ingegerd was born into one of Sweden's most powerful noble families, the ...
(fl. 1200)
*Ingegerd Knutsdotter
Ingegerd Knutsdotter (1356 – September 14, 1412) was a Swedish nun and noble, the first official abbess of the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena in 1385/88–1403.
Life
Ingegerd Knutsdotter was the daughter of Märtha (Margareta) Ulfsdotter and K ...
(1356–1412)
See also
*Ingrid (given name)
Ingrid is a feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name ''Ingiríðr'', which was a short form of ''Ingfríðr'', composed of the theonym ''Yngvi, Ing'' and the element ''fríðr'' "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given ...
References
*Eva Brylla, ''Förnamn i Sverige'' (2004)
*Roland Otterbjörk, ''Svenska förnamn'' (1979)
*Eva Villarsen Meldgaard, ''Den store navnebog'' (2004)
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Nordic Names
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Scandinavian feminine given names