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' 199 ...
'' combined with the element ''garðr '' "enclosure, protection". The name
Inger is a short form. In Finnish the equivalence of Ingegerd is
Inkeri.
''Ingegerd'' (less commonly in the variant ''Ingegärd'') was most popularly given in modern
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
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, also known as Irene or Anna (1001 – 10 February 1050), was a Swedish princess and the grand princess of Kiev from 1019 to 1050 as the wife of Yaroslav the Wise. She was the daughter of the Swedish king Olof Sköt ...
(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 of Flanders, Adela. She is regarded as the ...
(fl. 1100)
*Ingegerd Birgersdotter
Ingegerd (or ''Ingegärd'') Birgersdotter ( – 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 Bjälbo family, as the child ...
(fl. 1200), Swedish queen consort
*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 ...
(1356–1412)
*Ingegärd, Swedish princess (died 1204), daughter of King Sverker I of Sweden
Sverker the Elder (Old Swedish: ''Swærkir konongær gambli''; c. 1100 - 25 December 1156), also known as Sverker I, was King of Sweden from about 1132 until his murder. Of non-royal descent, he founded the House of Sverker, the rulers of which ...
, abbess
*Ingegerd of Norway
Ingegerd Haraldsdotter (; – ) was a Norwegian princess who, by her successive marriages, became queen of Denmark and Sweden. Her husbands were Olaf I of Denmark (died 1095) and Philip of Sweden (died 1118).
Biography
Ingegerd Haraldsdotter w ...
, Swedish queen consort 1096
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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Scandinavian feminine given names
Feminine given names