Given name & surname
Ingolf
“ing's wolf”
Ingolf is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “ing's wolf.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “ing's wolf.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ingolf through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 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 boys is 5 in 1921. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1916.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ingolf’s family of names
In German usage, Ingolf has a diminutive in Inge. Ingolf has a related form in Ingolfe. Ingolf has a related form in Ingulf.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Ingolf
- Count Ingolf of Rosenborgformer Danish prince (born 1940); elder son of Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark
- Ingolf Elster ChristensenNorwegian politician, jurist, and military officer (1872–1943)
- Ingolf WunderAustrian pianist (born 1985)
- Ingolf WiegertGerman handball player (born 1957)
- Ingolf MorkNorwegian ski jumper (1947–2012)
- Ingolf RødNorwegian sailor (1889–1963)
- Ingolf DavidsenNorwegian artistic gymnast (1893–1946)
- Ingolf SchancheNorwegian actor and theatre director (1877–1954)
- Ingolf LückGerman actorborn 1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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