Inga

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Inga: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #117 in 1980, and it stood at #210 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
104times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#117highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Inga's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Moved 118 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3247
2001	#3998
2004	#3725
2006	#2509
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#3031
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#2717
2013	#2649
2014	#2314
2015	#1961
2016	#2547
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#4001
2020	#3447
2021	#4634
2022	#2888

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2022: #237 among girls in Norway, #2888 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #144 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #117 among girls in Norway, in 1980 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #210 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Inga appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,515 births with the name.

Inga across 3 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.

Inga'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 · Girls	#144 (1945)	#117 (1980)	#210 (2025)	81 of 81	2,515 (1945–2025)	59 (1989)
England and Wales · Girls	#3247 (2000)	#1961 (2015)	#2888 (2022)	20 of 23	142 (2000–2022)	14 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2013)	#587 (2013)	#750 (2016)	3 of 4	15 (2013–2016)	6 (2013)

Inga by decade in Norway · Girls

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 Inga in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	173	5 of 10	35
1950s	260	10 of 10	26
1960s	243	10 of 10	24
1970s	315	10 of 10	32
1980sbusiest	506	10 of 10	51
1990s	384	10 of 10	38
2000s	288	10 of 10	29
2010s	231	10 of 10	23
2020s	115	6 of 10	19

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 51 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1990 and 1991, when recorded births fell by 29, from 56 to 27.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Inga 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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #117 in Norway in 1980.

Inga'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#210	21	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#200	22	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#188	26	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#237	17	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#310	11	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#245	18	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#211	23	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#179	29	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#214	24	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#332	14	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#224	24	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#190	30	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#248	22	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#225	25	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#216	25	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#324	15	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#221	25	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#188	32	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#187	32	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#288	16	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#178	33	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#193	29	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#211	25	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#226	21	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#187	28	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#134	47	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#141	44	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#173	34	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#182	32	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#166	35	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#158	41	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#204	28	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#163	38	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#146	49	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#221	27	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#143	56	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#136	59	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#156	43	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#133	51	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#133	50	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#126	55	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#142	47	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#139	45	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#142	47	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#135	52	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#117	57	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#189	29	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#170	32	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#131	45	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#151	41	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#163	36	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#188	29	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#174	31	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#201	25	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#198	25	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#209	22	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#180	25	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#168	28	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#192	24	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#189	22	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#160	28	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#160	27	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#173	25	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#219	17	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#159	26	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#185	21	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#175	22	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#190	20	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#241	13	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#145	33	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#159	28	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#186	21	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#157	29	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#137	36	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#161	26	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#145	32	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#169	24	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#141	33	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#125	41	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#139	38	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#144	37	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #117, first reached in 1980.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 59 births, registered in Norway in 1989.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 68 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.

Inesa · #876, 11y
Inez · #385, 32y
Ingar · #98, 62y
Inge · #52, 67y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Petra · #120, 80y
Edgar · #122, 76y
Olga · #107, 80y
Bo · #129, 77y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Asle · #117, 59y
Barbro · #117, 52y
Dagny · #117, 68y
Gard · #117, 69y

Inga was ranked #117 in Norway · Girls in 1980. 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.

Inga 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 Inga without appearing here.

Inga moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Cecilie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #5669.
Debra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2314 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Inga

Frida Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3725 and #1836.
Liv Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3725 and #1836.
Eabha Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4001 and #2458.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3192.

Moved the opposite way to Inga

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 while Ella went from #137 to #4.

Moved the same way as Inga

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Inga went from #144 to #210 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #117 in Norway in 1980. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Inga

Inga at a glance

What stands out in Inga's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Inga across 3 official records

Inga by decade in Norway · Girls

Inga appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Inga at a glance

What stands out in Inga's record

Inga across 3 official records

Inga by decade in Norway · Girls

Inga appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Inga

Inga and the names beside it

Inga moved ahead of

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