Inge

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Inge: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Inge: Recorded since 1945, it reached #52 in 1948, and it stood at #516 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
68times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#52highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Inge's record

Held a top-100 place for 28 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2005

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2005	#4798

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 66 of the 79 years from 1945 to 2023.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #54 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2023
Highest recorded position: #52 among boys in Norway, in 1948 (recorded 1945–2023).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #516 among boys in Norway, in 2023.
Norway · Boys

Inge appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 66 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 4,704 births with the name.

Inge across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Inge's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#54 (1945)	#52 (1948)	#516 (2023)	66 of 79	4,704 (1945–2023)	161 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#4373 (2003)	#4798 (2005)	2 of 3	6 (2003–2005)	3 (2003)

Inge by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Inge in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	747	5 of 10	149
1950s	1,379	10 of 10	138
1960s	1,241	10 of 10	124
1970s	789	10 of 10	79
1980s	360	10 of 10	36
1990s	127	10 of 10	13
2000s	47	8 of 10	6
2010s	6	1 of 10	6
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 149 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1975 and 1976, when recorded births fell by 29, from 80 to 51.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Inge appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #52 in Norway in 1951.

Inge's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#516	4	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#455	4	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#458	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#548	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#555	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#481	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#461	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#499	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#373	9	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#415	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#460	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#335	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#325	12	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#301	14	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#299	14	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#320	13	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#326	12	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#282	17	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#427	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#323	14	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#373	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#284	17	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#241	22	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#168	38	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#193	35	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#210	29	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#210	29	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#153	46	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#143	53	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#168	39	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#142	52	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#166	42	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#146	50	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#139	51	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#142	51	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#110	80	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#92	92	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#102	82	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#89	101	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#78	113	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#69	127	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#76	122	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#79	111	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#64	130	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#68	130	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#76	106	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#69	125	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#58	137	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#67	123	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#60	142	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#69	115	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#62	131	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#59	133	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#63	125	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#56	142	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#65	127	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#59	133	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#64	132	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#54	160	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#52	156	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#58	140	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#52	156	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#52	159	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#62	134	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#55	161	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#54	137	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 67 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #52, first reached in 1948.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 28 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 161 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 58 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Inga · #117, 81y
Ingar · #98, 62y
Ingebjørg · #54, 81y
Ingeborg · #36, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jesper · #53, 63y
Beate · #47, 70y
Helga · #58, 70y
Kirsti · #43, 63y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Aina · #52, 81y
Albert · #52, 80y
Mariann · #52, 63y
Sidsel · #52, 38y

Inge was ranked #52 in Norway · Boys in 1948. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Inge and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Inge without appearing here.

Inge moved ahead of

Stein Compare
In 2014 they stood at #548 and #442 in Norway · Boys; by 2015 that had become #458 and #503.
Odd Compare
In 2014 they stood at #548 and #413 in Norway · Boys; by 2015 that had become #458 and #467.

Moved ahead of Inge

Liam Compare
In 1999 they stood at #335 and #340 in Norway · Boys; by 2000 that had become #460 and #235.
Isaac Compare
In 2003 they stood at #373 and #429 in Norway · Boys; by 2004 that had become #499 and #279.
Jonah Compare
In 2003 they stood at #373 and #464 in Norway · Boys; by 2004 that had become #499 and #290.
Phillip Compare
In 1999 they stood at #335 and #487 in Norway · Boys; by 2000 that had become #460 and #254.

Moved the opposite way to Inge

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 while Alfred went from #127 to #18.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 while Andreas went from #140 to #55.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 while Arthur went from #153 to #86.

Moved the same way as Inge

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 and Anders from #55 to #189.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 and Arild from #32 to #498.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 and Arne from #6 to #210.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Inge went from #54 to #516 and Bjørn from #3 to #82.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #52 in Norway in 1951. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Inge

Inge at a glance

What stands out in Inge's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Inge across 2 official records

Inge by decade in Norway · Boys

Inge appears in

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Inge at a glance

What stands out in Inge's record

Inge across 2 official records

Inge by decade in Norway · Boys

Inge appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Inge

Inge and the names beside it

Inge moved ahead of

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