Ingemar
Ingemar is a given name. People with the name include:Ingemar Backman, Swedish professional snowboarder Ingemar Burgström (1926–1951), Swedish flyweight boxer Olai Ingemar Eikeland (1915–2003), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party Ingemar Erlandsson, Swedish footballer Ingemar Hedberg (1920–2019), Swedish flatwater canoeist Ingemar Hedenius (1908–1982), Swedish philosopher Ingemar Hägglöf…
- Swedish
Meaning & Origin of Ingemar
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ingemar is a given name. People with the name include:Ingemar Backman, Swedish professional snowboarder Ingemar Burgström (1926–1951), Swedish flyweight boxer Olai Ingemar Eikeland (1915–2003), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party Ingemar Erlandsson, Swedish footballer Ingemar Hedberg (1920–2019), Swedish flatwater canoeist Ingemar Hedenius (1908–1982), Swedish philosopher Ingemar Hägglöf…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Swedish
The Story of Ingemar
The earliest SSA record of Ingemar as a baby boy name dates back to 1959, when 8 babies received it. 1959 was its biggest year on record, with 8 newborns named Ingemar — #3,037 in the national rankings. About 62% of every Ingemar on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Ingemar last appeared in the published SSA data in 1961, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 21 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ingemar
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Ingemar. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Ingemar
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- Ingather
- Ingan
- Encounter
- Inking
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- Ingar
- Ngor
- Ngoma
- Engore
- Inkier
- Angor
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About the name Ingemar
Ingemar is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1959 and has accumulated 21 births in the dataset. Ingemar's peak popularity came in 1959 when it ranked #3,037. Use the chart and map above to compare Ingemar's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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