Given name & surname
Ingvald
Ingvald is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1899. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ingvald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 74 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 18 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 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ingvald’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Ingvald has a related form in Ingevald. In Norwegian usage, Ingvald has a related form in Yngvald.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ingvald
- Ingvald Eriksengymnast (1884–1961)
- Ingvald UlvesethNorwegian politician (1924-2008)
- Ingvald UndsetNorwegian archaeologist1853–1893
- Ingvald FørreMember of Parliament of Norway1879–1962
- Ingvald B. AaseNorwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour and the Communist parties (1882-1948)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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