Inger

From Ingegerd and Ingrid.

Inger

1. a female given name

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 55 050 females with the given name Inger have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on April 14th, 2011.

From Ingegerd and Ingrid.

Inger

1. a female given name

From Ingegerd.

Inger

1. a female given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 32 870 females with the given name Inger living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 14th 2011.

Contraction of Ingegerd and also a dialectal form of Ingrid. First recorded in Sweden in 1561.

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Inger c (genitive Ingers)

1. a female given name
   • 2020, Neil Hourihan, “18. Kryss-skolan i skogen”, in Lätta Kryss [Easy Crosswords], number 7, →ISSN, page 18:

     'Kom igen Inger – 1-2, 1-2, 1-2...'

     'Come on, Inger – 1-2, 1-2, 1-2...'

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån: 76 051 females with the given name Inger living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 14th, 2011.

• Niger, niger, regin, ringe