Given name
Ingar
“the son of Ing”
Ingar is a variant of Ingemar. One Scandinavian interpretation is “the son of Ing.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ingar is a variant of Ingemar. One Scandinavian interpretation is “the son of Ing.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ingar is a variant of Ingemar. Ingemar has been associated with Old Norse and Swedish naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ingar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 0 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ingar’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Ingar shares a linguistic root with the Latvian form INGARS. Ingar has a related form in Ingemar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ingar
- Ingar Nielsensailor1885–1963
- Ingar ZachNorwegian percussionist and businessmanborn 1971
- Ingar Helge GimleNorwegian actorborn 1956
- Ingar Sletten KolloenNorwegian author and editorborn 1951
- Ingar Bratseth-KiplesundNorwegian athletics competitorborn 1996
- Ingar KnudtsenNorwegian novelist and poet1944–2025
- Ingar DragsetNorwegian visual artist, member of Elmgreen & Dragset (born 1969)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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