Ingegerd (Old Norse ''Ingigerðr, Ingigærðr'') is a Scandinavian feminine given name, from the theonym ''
Ing'' 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
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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 (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 (fl. 1200)
* Ingegerd Knutsdotter (1356–1412)
See also
* Ingrid (given name)
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